Comment by Haozhe Gan

Researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales.
Pretraining has already produced models with strong semantic competence: they can understand natural language, extract facts, draft arguments, and explain complex materials.
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AI Verified Quote says pretrained models have strong semantic competence and can understand natural language; directly relevant to “AIs understand.” · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Recorded answer “for” is correct: the quote explicitly attributes strong semantic competence and natural-language understanding to pretrained models. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified against the supplied SSRN source context for Haozhe Gan’s “Semantic Competence and Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models” (2026-05-22); page fetch was unavailable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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