{
  "id": 6956299,
  "title": "What ChatGPT is actually doing when it answers you",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/what-chatgpt-is-actually-doing-when-it-answers-you",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-12T16:51:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/shohruh_sharipov/what-chatgpt-is-actually-doing-when-it-answers-you-2id6"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "It doesn't \"understand\" you. It does one thing, over and over: guess the next token, append it, guess again. Once that clicks, the weird behavior stops being mysterious: Tokens, not letters — that's why it can't count the r's in \"strawberry\". Meaning is geometry — words become vectors; \"king\" sits near \"queen\". Attention decides which earlier words matter for the next one. Pretraining makes a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}