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Yes I'm serious. Here's the prompt I would use: "what does bananas mean in this sentence: YouTube embeds are bananas heavy and it’s fixable"

Put it in google, and it doesn't give anything useful

Put it in an LLM, and you get a correct answer because LLMs can understand full sentences



LLMs don't actually "understand" anything. They're just better at parsing and manipulating language.




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