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People that use chatbots usually don't know how they work.
Machine Learning models are "predictive." They use previous data to train, and then predict stock prices or weather next week etc.
LLM chatbots are trained on google and whatsapp messages. When you type hi they "predict" what reply on whatsapp would be.
When you ask how to so something they predict what top result on google would look like. What's correct or not doesn't matter.
Yet people using chatbots assume it googles your each question like some kind of scraper and reasons with it's "language code."
Most do this in their “thinking” step now. And the results are far better as a result, even up to current events.