Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?

By rogerrogerr · 2026-09-06 · 1 points · 1 comments

This has been bothering me for a while. I feel like I have a decent conceptual grasp of what LLMs are doing with written text. But it seems like they also unlocked a bunch of progress in understanding and generating images, audio, and video. I can’t twist my brain into understan…

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