Mitchell: stochastic parrot critique targeted 2021 LLMs, not today's AI systems
PMinervini · x · 2026-09-27
Melanie Mitchell pushed back on how the Stochastic Parrots paper is cited, calling such uses straw-person arguments: the paper critiqued LLMs as of 2021, whereas today's AI systems are complex software stacks with extensive post-training and many external components. This aligns with her related claim that current systems are no longer LLMs.
Related event: Melanie Mitchell Sparks Debate: Today's Systems Are Not LLMs(31 posts)→
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