Timnit Gebru doubles down on "stochastic parrots" — researchers call her obsolete
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-29
Timnit Gebru reiterated her "stochastic parrots" framing, claiming you "cannot expect LLMs to be factual" and citing Google AI Overviews errors as evidence. Alec Stapp mocked the take, while researcher teortaxesTex argued the real indictment is her lack of progress as chatbots evolved "from parrots to Alien Minds" — her landmark paper is now a one-prompt parody.
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