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@emilymbender@dair-community.social

2026-10-07 15:07 UTC

Hearing lots of discourse about "stochastic parrots" recently? Here's a discussion of the backstory, both of the phrase itself and what's going on now. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-two-words-the-ai-industry-hates

Replies (5)

  • @rrb@infosec.exchange 2026-10-07 16:32

    @emilymbender@dair-community.social To be fair, when Sam Altman said "I am a stochastic parrot," he was not lying. He just was not telling the truth that he thought he was.

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  • @PeachMcD@union.place 2026-10-07 17:18

    @emilymbender@dair-community.social Excellent! Thank you! This + @@pluralistic@mamot.fr help this concerned but untechsavvy person negotiate a difficult timeline

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  • @rustynail@floss.social 2026-10-07 17:35

    @emilymbender@dair-community.social funny how after all this time and all sorts of discussions and supposedly a lot of development and progress the discourse is back to the most ancient argument which is that modern LLMs are "just statistics" and aren't that different from toy "AIs" that people used to generate funny absurd Mario fan fiction over 10 years ago that was mostly random garbage

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  • @tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one 2026-10-07 22:15

    @emilymbender@dair-community.social I'll double up on my usage of that term. Gotta piss off the AI bros

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  • @nzlemming@mastodon.nz 2026-10-07 23:32

    @emilymbender@dair-community.social I want to thank you and the other authors for that paper. I had a suspicion that LLMs were not what they were cracked up to be and that paper helped me understand why. Also, good interview.

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