> LLMs strongly prefer word-level tokens, and word substitutions follow semantic similarity and not the more human auditory similarity.

Is this an elaborate joke or your full-word misspelling of writing is both agreeing with your statement (word substitutions) and contradicting it (not semantic but only pronunciation similarity)

0: https://huggingface.co/posts/omarkamali/593639295164067

1: https://omneitylabs.com/models/sawtone

That's zero ex oh (the letter) five