Researcher Critiques "API Science" for Obscuring Language Model Fundamentals

Researcher tesseraantra criticizes "API science," arguing that reifying meaningless API affordances as real model properties wastes research effort and undermines scientific rigor, echoing concerns linguists raised in the GPT-3 era.

2026-09-01 ~ 2026-09-01 · 3 related posts

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