Critique of "API Science": obscuring the true nature of LLMs
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-01
A user criticizes the trend of 'API science' in AI research, arguing that researchers wrongly reify meaningless API affordances as real features of the language model. This approach lacks rigor and rots the field by distracting from understanding what is actually happening inside the model.
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