This is only true when it is meaningless. Let's say my friend was born on January 2, 1900, and I was born on January 1, 1900. Who has the closer birthday to so

This is only true when it is meaningless. Let's say my friend was born on January 2, 1900, and I was born on January 1, 1900. Who has the closer birthday to someone born on January 1, 2000? If you say it's me, well guess what, you're wrong! My birthday is 1 day farther away, just count the days. If you say it's my friend, well guess what, you're wrong! January 1 == January 1. It's the same birthday, obviously. Incidentally this is why I think LLMs are a lot more impressive than many here give them credit for. Language is ambiguous and being able to create something novel & coherent using an algorithm is an amazing achievement. Embedded in our use of words is a lot of information that is often incongruent with the understood meaning of the word, as this example shows. Apparently humanity itself has two divergent "hallucinations" of what the word "closest" means in this context. We really can't blame the AI for imitating us when that's what we ask it to do.