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Comment by Barbing

5 hours ago

all five letters of that answer are in your username :)

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defrost  4 hours ago

Are you thinking of a single five letter word, two words of three and two letters, or an entire sentence that only uses 5 distinct letters?

Consider being less cryptic, for the sake of those with English as a fourth language.

  • berdario  3 hours ago

    (also a non-native speaker here, mildly annoyed by the obscure joke from GP)

    Wordplay are exactly the kind of stuff that LLMs excel at, so I asked Gemini flash, and I got

    > snarky play on words by suggesting that the answer to AnthonyMouse's question is "Money."

    > Here is the breakdown of how they arrived at that:

    > The Username: AnthonyMouse

    > The Letters: The word "Money" can be formed using the letters found in M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e

    (Gemini's answer is actually longer, I just kept the interesting bit)

    Amusingly, this answer exhibits a similar problem to the "how many r in raspberry" problem (it forgets how to spell correctly), since

    AnthonyMouse != M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e

    But it seems that it got to the correct answer (or an incorrect but plausible :) ) despite that