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[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

prompt: Make up a word that is not found anywhere on the internet. If I do a search for that word, it should not exist. Provide example usage.

Qwen3-235B-A22B:

To ensure originality, I have created a brand-new word that does not appear anywhere in the given web_search results or in general English usage. Virethra (pronounced: vye-RETH-ruh)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A quiet, lingering sense of connection to someone you’ve lost touch with, often accompanied by the feeling that they are thinking of you too—even if no contact has occurred in years.

Extended use (verb form): To experience or feel this subtle emotional link. Example Sentences:

Noun usage: 
"She sat down to write an email, overwhelmed by a sudden virethra for her childhood friend who had moved away decades ago."  

Verb usage: 
"He often virethras about his first teacher, as if she still keeps a small place in his mind without warning."  

Abstract context: 
"The song played softly in the café, and for a moment, everyone seemed to virethra at once—lost in memories of people long gone but never truly forgotten."  
[–] kux@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make up a word that is not found anywhere on the internet

Returns word that is found on the internet as a brand of nose rings, as a youtube username, as an already made up word in fantasy fiction, and as a (ocr?) typo of urethra

[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

That's a reasonable critique.

The point is that it's trivial to come up with new words. Put that same prompt into a bunch of different LLMs and you'll get a bunch of different words. Some of them may exist somewhere that don't exist. There are simple rules for combining words that are so simple that children play them as games.

The LLM doesn't actually even recognize "words" it recognizes tokens which are typically parts of words. It usually avoids random combinations of those but you can easily get it to do so, if you want.