Hard sci-fi authors mostly hate LLMs: stochastic parrot and IP concerns lead
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-20
A skimming of favorite hard science fiction authors' webpages reveals most of them hate LLMs — a surprising number see them as useless stochastic parrots, some object over IP, and a minority cite existential risk. The replier quips: we finally get talking robots and sci-fi writers hate it.
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