Comment by Merik
3 months ago
Didn’t anthropic show that the models engage in a form of planning such that it is predicting a possible future subsequent tokens that then affects prediction of the next token: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
Sure, an LLM can start "preparing" for token N+4 at token N. But that doesn't change that the token N can't "see" N+1.
Causality is enforced in LLMs - past tokens can affect future tokens, but not the other way around.