alt Hacker NewsI don’t see a problem with the “stochastic parrot” label. It just turns out stochastic parrots are incredibly useful.
At a minimum it’s probably more accurate than “AI”.
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simianwords • today at 6:44 PM
This is a clear application of motte and Bailey. Motte: LLMs are stochastic parrots and don’t understand the text. They frequently hallucinate and are unreliable.
Bailey: well your version
Whether Bender intended it or not, the term has an inherently pejorative sense. "Parroting" is not really indicative of what modern LLMs do. However, when most people bring it up as a criticism of "AI in general" in 2026, they're using it as a pointer to all of the social/environmental criticisms, rather than the technological capabilities.