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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

My guess is what's going on is there's tons of psuedo code out there that looks like it's a real language but has functions that don't exist as placeholders and the LLM noticed the pattern to the point where it just makes up functions, not realizing they need to be implemented (because LLMs don't realize things but just pattern match very complex patterns).