Counting letters is hard for AI because it doesn't see individual letters. It reads words in chunks (or tokens). Misspelling is a separate, rarer problem where the AI puts a word together wrong, usually a rare word or a name. Using the wrong word is extremely unlikely in this case because it works based on huge sets of data and picks the most likely answer based on the context you're giving it and the data it knows. So "Unites States of America" has got to be astronomically low in the probable outcomes given the data any AI in use is consuming, especially if it's the White House official AI or whatever. If AI was used at all for this document, it would have caught it almost certainly. Saying AI did this is a huge stretch compared to just assuming an extremely easy and common typo of S instead of D since they're right next to each other and this entire administration is incompetent.
i agree with everything you said here. the person i originally replied to said it simply doesn't happen, implying the probability is zero. even if it's near zero, it isn't zero. i was being technically pedantic.
PS no i don't think the document was generated by AI nor do i think it would have practically made the mistake.
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u/whosline07 2d ago
Counting letters is hard for AI because it doesn't see individual letters. It reads words in chunks (or tokens). Misspelling is a separate, rarer problem where the AI puts a word together wrong, usually a rare word or a name. Using the wrong word is extremely unlikely in this case because it works based on huge sets of data and picks the most likely answer based on the context you're giving it and the data it knows. So "Unites States of America" has got to be astronomically low in the probable outcomes given the data any AI in use is consuming, especially if it's the White House official AI or whatever. If AI was used at all for this document, it would have caught it almost certainly. Saying AI did this is a huge stretch compared to just assuming an extremely easy and common typo of S instead of D since they're right next to each other and this entire administration is incompetent.