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Because that’s how they work…? It’s not an actual physical book… you don’t seriously think this do you…? it’s the text data inside, like any other text file it would use for context.
Where do you think it gets its data from…?
From the training.
I will stop now replying to, because you clearly need to learn more about llms.
Here, have a fish 🐟
So you use a programming llm instead of a generic one….
Or do you think all llms and ai are the same?