A sharp comeback to the “stochastic parrots” line goes around again
HankYeomans · x · 2026-08-04
A quoted reply lands a sharp comeback to the old “LLMs are just stochastic parrots” dismissals: "Did you come up with that on your own, or repeat something you heard?"
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