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Comment by DonaldPShimoda

> LLMs, like humans, can manipulate these languages

Absolutely not. LLMs do not "manipulate" language. They do not have agency. They are extremely advanced text prediction engines. Their output is the result of applying the statistics harvested and distilled from existing uses of natural language. They only "appear" human because they are statistically geared toward producing human-like sequences of words. They cannot choose to change how they use language, and thus cannot be said to actively "manipulate" the language.

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