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svnt on Dec 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scramb...

Encryption works by mathematically not being predictable, whereas LLMs operate on predictable data.

PUSH_AX on Dec 3, 2023 [–]

The enigma was a substitution cypher, not encryption.

svnt on Dec 4, 2023 | [–]

Using a cipher is the definition of encryption:

In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext

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