'The curve of the letter b is invisible to the model' — tokenizer meme resurfaces
rickasaurus · x · 2026-08-30
A widely shared post quips that "the curve of the letter 'b' is invisible to the model," poking fun at how LLM tokenizers split text into tokens so models can't literally perceive individual letter shapes — which explains classic failures like counting letters or spelling words. See the attached image in the source post.
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