Anthropic explains LLM's challenge in distinguishing own thoughts from user input
Anthropic published a technical explanation of how LLMs like Claude perceive conversation as a single continuous text stream, making it difficult to distinguish between their own generated text and user input. The post uses a snapshot of Claude's response to illustrate the problem, highlighting the fundamental difference between the structured chat interface users see and the raw token sequence the model processes.
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