ChatGPT gives you what words and phrases are most likely to show up next. So does this, but it’s showing what CHARACTERS (abcdefg etc) are likely to show up next. So it looks like English but it isn’t coherent on a sentence level. Yet if someone was to hear it spoken from far away, unable to hear the individual words, it might sound like English.

ChatGPT gives you what words and phrases are most likely to show up next.
So does this, but it’s showing what CHARACTERS (abcdefg etc) are likely to show up next.
So it looks like English but it isn’t coherent on a sentence level. Yet if someone was to hear it spoken from far away, unable to hear the individual words, it might sound like English.