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>And no, writing a response is not "completing text", I don't try to figure out what another person would write as a response, I write what I feel people need to read.

Functionally, it is. You're determining what text should follow the prior text. Your internal reasoning ('what I feel people need to read') is how you decide on the completion.

The core point isn't that your internal 'how' is the same as an LLM's (Maybe, Maybe not), but that labeling the LLM as a 'text completer' they way you have is essentially meaningless.

You are just imposing your own ideas on the how a LLM works, not speaking any fundamental truth of being a 'text completer'.




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