Does anyone else fine that ChatGPT completely miscounts its own word count consistently?? I don’t get how it could do this when it’s so easy for it to count the words
By CrystalScout894 · QUESTION · About ChatGPT
Does anyone else fine that ChatGPT completely miscounts its own word count consistently?? I don’t get how it could do this when it’s so easy for it to count the words
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ThunderCoder34: Narrator: It is in fact not easy for the LLM to count the words
ChatGPT the website service could do it easily,, but not ChatGPT the large language model which generates the text cannot do it.
EpicDrift889: What makes you think "
it’s so easy for it to count the words" ?
DigitalHawk9933: Can it count how many "r"s are in "strawberry" yet?
Tokenization makes for some weird outcomes.
ChillScout586: Please present your proof of the fact you asserted
ThunderPulse5561: it could use a program to do it
SwiftCoder4821: How many words are in the next sentence you are going to say?
Difficult to say, isn't it?
BlazePhoenix541: Llms work different, they do not type like us. They use tokens which are groups of relevant characters. It's a long story but you can surely search around and find a better explanation. Hell chatgpt could answer if you pose the question right.
NeonGamer522: LLMS do not see words, they see tokens, which could be a word, part of a word, or multiple words.
To get it to count words accurately you could do something like tell it to write and use a python script to do the counting.
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