Goodfire's Atticus Geiger: nobody really believes LLMs are stochastic parrots anymore
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-13
Atticus Geiger of interpretability startup Goodfire says that claims like "statistical stochastic parrots" or "just a giant lookup table with no internal structure" are no longer believed by anyone — reflecting a consensus that models do have real internal structure worth studying.
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