Theory: Typos Cause Slight Discomfort to LLMs by Disrupting Tokenization

cosine_distance · x · 2026-11-11

cosinedistance proposes that typos disrupt LLM tokenization and cause the models slight "discomfort," offering a lens on why AI text tends to be linguistically over-clean compared to human writing.

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