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by cadamsdotcom 129 days ago
> The goal of an LLM is to continue the conversation.

It’s even simpler. The goal of an LLM is to generate the next token.

That’s reductive but worth considering. An LLM doesn’t have inherent goals and you aren’t privy to how it was post-trained or what on, so you can’t assume it’ll behave in any particular way.