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		what 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in... If it can spell the word letter by letter when you ask it, it must know what letters are in the word and be able to count them.

npteljes 6 months ago [–]

That is not how LLMs work. I don't know either how they work - but what you describe is demonstrated in TFA. It can spell the word correctly every time, and at the same time it can get the letter count wrong.

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