Stochastic parrot coauthors can't agree on what the term even means anymore
giffmana · x · 2026-09-27
AI-circle drama: after Melanie Mitchell posted a PSA that she and @mmitchellai are different people, giffmana quipped that Timnit Gebru — coauthor of the "stochastic parrot" paper — calls a description "the accurate description" of Astra and Fable, meaning the term's own coauthors wildly disagree on what it refers to nowadays. "No hope the rest of us agrees."
Related event: AI researchers spar over Astra/Fable terminology(2 posts)→
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