• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    What’s with the jump to being so hostile?

    I promise I was not being “hostile”. I led with “I have literally no idea what you’re talking about”, and that’s because I frankly did not. I appreciate you clarifying, although I think dividing it into “pure” and (consequently) “impure” isn’t sensible terminology. An LLM is just that: a model trained on a huge text corpus.

    I still get what you’re going for now, namely that output can be “tainted” by previous input, hence “purity”. I think something like “isolated input” would be more apt, although that’s also ad hoc, and there’s probably real, established terminology out there somewhere (that maybe I’m even forgetting).

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      8 hours ago

      there’s probably real, established terminology out there somewhere (that maybe I’m even forgetting).

      Maybe… there may not be one, though. The ChatGPT app quite purposely obscures the mechanics of the LLM underneath, and they aren’t keen on advertising that to users.

      “Isolated input” makes sense to me.

      In a technical sense, I suppose an adjacent term would be a raw completion API? Which is rarely offered anymore, sadly.