Jack Clark: "Stochastic parrot" meme blinded AI critics for years
repligate · x · 2026-09-21
Jack Clark argued that the "stochastic parrot" framing was a "mimetically-fit cognitive virus" that spread from 2021-2025, temporarily blinding many gifted people to the nature of AI progress and burning crucial years they could have spent thinking through the response.
repligate replied that anyone who could be blinded for years by the meme probably wouldn't have contributed much to that thinking even without it.
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