Yeah, I said that. You're not the only commenter that has pointed out to me that the model doesn't contain the training corpus; that the model is analogous to

Yeah, I said that. You're not the only commenter that has pointed out to me that the model doesn't contain the training corpus; that the model is analogous to a human writer who learns to write by becoming a voracious reader. I acknowledge that, I think the analogy is fair. The problem is that the memory capacity of the model appears to be humungous; I've never played with ChatGPT, but I understand that it can quote accurately and at some length from a wide range of literature. By the model, I mean the model behind ChatGPT. I suspect this "memory" amounts to having unimaginable numbers of parameters, i.e. something like overfit. I realize that's just one LLM, and there are other models that are neither generative nor language models, and that have to be much more restrained in what they consider a "parameter".