Researcher pushes back on 'stochastic parrot' framing: even pure LLMs no longer fit it
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-27
In a discussion with Melanie Mitchell, AI researcher Blanche Minerva argued that the 'stochastic parrot' framing no longer holds: it's hard to sustain when several of the paper's authors publicly proclaim otherwise. She said it was largely true in 2021, but even 'pure' LLMs — without tools — are no longer meaningfully captured by that model.
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