'Stochastic Parrot' fight reignites as Gebru hits back at critics
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-27
Timnit Gebru amplified a spat over the famous "stochastic parrots" paper: Andrew Lampinen argued the phrase is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" and reflects the authors' core technical mistake about language. Gebru shot back that executives who claim to be building machine gods that could render us extinct consider accurate descriptions of language modeling tasks to be full of "fury" — "they doth protest too much." The exchange extends the long-running divide over LLM nature and AI safety narratives.
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