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Comment by jazzyjackson

9 hours ago

I figure an LLM would be way better at classifying insults than regexing against a bad word list. Why would character level be desirable?

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vanviegen  7 hours ago

I'd imagine for simplicity - just skip the tokenizer and feed bytes.

duskwuff  6 hours ago

Might a character-level LLM be better at recognizing poorly spelled (or deliberately misspelled) profanity?

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