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 @99b9ed46 @3bda71f9 @58587491 ok. My apologies if I came across at condescending or anything there, then 
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 @99b9ed46 @3bda71f9 @58587491 I'm genuinely curious, did you not know what LLMs are before that toot?
I thought you were being smug or sarcastic 
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 @99b9ed46 @3bda71f9 @58587491 ok.
LLMs are computer programs that have stored reams of (often stolen) text. When you supply it with a question or prompt, it runs calculations to return a sentence that that mathematically is possibly what you want 
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 @99b9ed46 @3bda71f9 @58587491 the next obvious one is "AI" (put in quotes because it's not intelligent, it's just a marketing scam)