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Statistical Residue

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A language model's training text is not stored inside it — what remains is statistical residue distilled into knob settings, not an archive.

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The model can answer questions whose exact answer appears in no document, assembled from a thousand regularities — a feat no archive performs.

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The fact cuts back — plainly-answered training-text questions can be missed; storage was never the mechanism.