Critic lands a sharp line: the stochastic parrot paper's real flaw is that it ornithomorphizes LLMs
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-27
In a reply to Melanie Mitchell, Brad Buchsbaum argues the biggest problem with the "stochastic parrot" paper is that it ornithomorphizes LLMs — a pointed jab suggesting the famous critique's bird metaphor itself misleads the debate about whether language models understand anything. A crisp one-liner in the ongoing LLM-capability argument.
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