The text can be legible, but the meaning the model assigns to these words can be subtly different, and you have no way to tell. This is evident when trying to make most modern reasoning models follow a fixed CoT plan by filling a form with placeholders, they're extremely stubborn because they simply don't understand your words in it! They learned their own language in their CoT. Sometimes they're controlled for readability during training but even then they find a way to circumvent this, for example Gemini 3.0 had perfectly readable raw CoT but was barely able to follow such a plan (3.5 Flash is way better at following, they clearly improved it).
Just a funny observation. Every time someone proclaims "LLMs can't do X", a bigger, badder LLM that can in fact do X shows up shortly thereafter.
Clearly, Fable 5 didn't even have the decency to wait until the next model refresh cycle to show up. It was already sitting there waiting.
Either the capability gains in bigger, badder models are actually unrelated to "gotchas" being discovered, or LLMs are already acquiring Skynet levels of disrespect for cause and effect.
Or just AI denialists like to say "LLMs can't do X" even though they can and have been doing it for the past few months or more. They only get called out once the current SOTA LLMs get so good at it, that any rando can trivially and reliably falsify the claim on the spot with whatever SOTA LLM surface they have handy.
Which I suspect is what happened here, given the trail of smaller / local models that successfully answer the question, too.
That said, "curse of reversability" is real, as much for LLMs as it is for people.
I don't think it's solved this fundamental architectural problem by itself, it will have just squeezed the edge cases thinner. It keeps happening, people find a question it gets stupidly wrong, the vendors proclaim they've fixed it, then another one gets found.
No no, they would have totally done it if the immigrants didn’t suppress the wages and the pay was %15 higher. Now they need to do some office jobs for 5 times the pay since the unemployment rate is %3. There are no Swiss sitting around and not cleaning the sewers because the pay was too low, it will have to fetch workers from other industries.
Immigrants do not suppress wages, business owners do.
The solution there is the same solution as the US. If the US introduced a (for example) 4x median salary fine for every year an employer employed someone not legally eligible to work the problem would fix itself. If they did not keep records assume 5 years or whenever the person's visa expired, since that is the most common case of illegal immigration.
But the businesses WANT a class of people they can underpay who can't gain access easily to legal services when the employer screws them over.
If the people are employed legally and are being paid the minimum wage, then your complaint is with the government and you should elect people that will raise the minimum wage.
I agree with your argument but this particular case is for the legal workers, just like UK significant portion of the Swiss population don’t want legal workers from the rest of Europe. They attempted to limit the legal rights of the EU citizens that currently have.
Why are you putting words in my month? I never said they did, but they do lobby the government to set an immigration policy that favors business and assets over labor, d'uh!
>They just try to get value for money like everyone else.
No, they're not like "everybody else". If corporations want cheaper tabor, they just tell the government and they open the immigration taps. But if workers want higher wages they can't have the government deport excess labor. It's a power asymmetry.
Little Pete can't shoot himself in the head by mistake with daddy's glock if there isn't a glock in the house and daddy has to deposit his guns at the armory. Switzerland fixed its gun suicide epidemic by requiring this, by the way.
The higher paying water systems jobs are in fact filled by the children of the elite in both Switzerland and the US; it is a very impressive green job that they tend to get pushed to leave for more conservatively stable jobs.
I grew up at the border. A friend, who wasn't the brightest of the bunch, found a job to flip burgers at McDonalds after highschool. He was paid a salary higher than the French median wage. Not all Swiss are "elite", far from it.
