We've had niches where AI had real cost benefit since the 1980s -- I've designed and led teams on some such systems myself -- but they're rare and they're point solutions, not cheaply generalisable.
Today's #stochasticparrots offer no cost benefit, except in domains where accuracy truly does […]
Today's #stochasticparrots offer no cost benefit, except in domains where accuracy truly does […]
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December 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We've had niches where AI had real cost benefit since the 1980s -- I've designed and led teams on some such systems myself -- but they're rare and they're point solutions, not cheaply generalisable.
Today's #stochasticparrots offer no cost benefit, except in domains where accuracy truly does […]
Today's #stochasticparrots offer no cost benefit, except in domains where accuracy truly does […]
"One takeaway for me from this experiment is that people who have the ability to cogently research and authenticate documents still have a bit of an upper hand"
#ai
#llms
#stochasticparrots
https://archive.is/hEF7I#selection-5117.485-5117.643
#ai
#llms
#stochasticparrots
https://archive.is/hEF7I#selection-5117.485-5117.643
December 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"One takeaway for me from this experiment is that people who have the ability to cogently research and authenticate documents still have a bit of an upper hand"
#ai
#llms
#stochasticparrots
https://archive.is/hEF7I#selection-5117.485-5117.643
#ai
#llms
#stochasticparrots
https://archive.is/hEF7I#selection-5117.485-5117.643
@quixoticgeek we certainly do, but once you are generating enough clean energy to power all farm equipment, all transport, and all mineral processing, then will be a good time to think about whether you have enough energy left over for #stochasticparrots and #ai slop production.
As to not […]
As to not […]
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December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@quixoticgeek we certainly do, but once you are generating enough clean energy to power all farm equipment, all transport, and all mineral processing, then will be a good time to think about whether you have enough energy left over for #stochasticparrots and #ai slop production.
As to not […]
As to not […]
@tcarmody.bsky.social
This was basically the thesis of #stochasticparrots: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s us, we’re the problem
This was basically the thesis of #stochasticparrots: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s us, we’re the problem
October 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@tcarmody.bsky.social
This was basically the thesis of #stochasticparrots: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s us, we’re the problem
This was basically the thesis of #stochasticparrots: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s us, we’re the problem
I enjoy movies, which are the collaborative work of a lot of humans using technology to create a composite work. The directors eye filters what we see, so much footage is dropped. They then push the actors toward their vision.
It's not wrong to call LLMs soul less algorithms, #StochasticParrots.
It's not wrong to call LLMs soul less algorithms, #StochasticParrots.
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I enjoy movies, which are the collaborative work of a lot of humans using technology to create a composite work. The directors eye filters what we see, so much footage is dropped. They then push the actors toward their vision.
It's not wrong to call LLMs soul less algorithms, #StochasticParrots.
It's not wrong to call LLMs soul less algorithms, #StochasticParrots.
August 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's hard to know who to be sorrier for. The 9,000 who are losing their jobs, or the rest who are going to have to take on not only the additional work of clearing up the mess the AI makes, but also the work of their dismissed colleagues.
#microsoft
#stochasticparrots […]
#microsoft
#stochasticparrots […]
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July 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It's hard to know who to be sorrier for. The 9,000 who are losing their jobs, or the rest who are going to have to take on not only the additional work of clearing up the mess the AI makes, but also the work of their dismissed colleagues.
#microsoft
#stochasticparrots […]
#microsoft
#stochasticparrots […]
Very clarifying article about stochastic parrots and the problem of fulfilling capital expectations at any cost.
buff.ly/saGfXyw
#genAI #StochasticParrots #CognitiveDebt #Environment #Ethics
buff.ly/saGfXyw
#genAI #StochasticParrots #CognitiveDebt #Environment #Ethics
AI is zombifying our brains. The iNaturalist saga shows we can fight back
The infestation of generative systems in education, medicine and academia should all be cause for much, much more alarm.
www.crikey.com.au
June 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Very clarifying article about stochastic parrots and the problem of fulfilling capital expectations at any cost.
buff.ly/saGfXyw
#genAI #StochasticParrots #CognitiveDebt #Environment #Ethics
buff.ly/saGfXyw
#genAI #StochasticParrots #CognitiveDebt #Environment #Ethics
Y’all, #stochasticparrots are the iceberg.
June 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Y’all, #stochasticparrots are the iceberg.
What if all the hype and hysteria around artificial intelligence is really just about resuscitating a moribund neoliberalism, which pretty much gave up the ghost in 2008? 🤔
#StochasticParrots #NeoliberalismIsDead #UBI #Medicare4All #FreeEducation
#StochasticParrots #NeoliberalismIsDead #UBI #Medicare4All #FreeEducation
June 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What if all the hype and hysteria around artificial intelligence is really just about resuscitating a moribund neoliberalism, which pretty much gave up the ghost in 2008? 🤔
#StochasticParrots #NeoliberalismIsDead #UBI #Medicare4All #FreeEducation
#StochasticParrots #NeoliberalismIsDead #UBI #Medicare4All #FreeEducation
#stochasticparrots was a theory that did not age well.
May 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#stochasticparrots was a theory that did not age well.
AI's biggest critics are back.
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social join Intelligent Machines to talk about their new book, The AI Con, and how to push back against Big Tech's hype.
🎧 buff.ly/bRHlkjw
#AI #StochasticParrots
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social join Intelligent Machines to talk about their new book, The AI Con, and how to push back against Big Tech's hype.
🎧 buff.ly/bRHlkjw
#AI #StochasticParrots
Put The Fries in the Bag | TWiT.TV
The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First AmendmentTrump Appointees
twit.tv
May 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AI's biggest critics are back.
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social join Intelligent Machines to talk about their new book, The AI Con, and how to push back against Big Tech's hype.
🎧 buff.ly/bRHlkjw
#AI #StochasticParrots
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social join Intelligent Machines to talk about their new book, The AI Con, and how to push back against Big Tech's hype.
🎧 buff.ly/bRHlkjw
#AI #StochasticParrots
Of all the effed up ways of adopting "AI" technologies, mimicking a dead person strike me as one of the creepiest use cases.
Are we ever going to stop deluding ourselves that we're interacting with intelligent, caring entities?
#StochasticParrots
Are we ever going to stop deluding ourselves that we're interacting with intelligent, caring entities?
#StochasticParrots
May 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Of all the effed up ways of adopting "AI" technologies, mimicking a dead person strike me as one of the creepiest use cases.
Are we ever going to stop deluding ourselves that we're interacting with intelligent, caring entities?
#StochasticParrots
Are we ever going to stop deluding ourselves that we're interacting with intelligent, caring entities?
#StochasticParrots
@emilymbender.bsky.social warned against using LLMs as band-aids in critical systems:
“Education, healthcare, legal, immigration… synthetic text looks like a quick solution. But it’s actually worse than nothing.”
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/aHCBWjR...
#AIethics #StochasticParrots
“Education, healthcare, legal, immigration… synthetic text looks like a quick solution. But it’s actually worse than nothing.”
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/aHCBWjR...
#AIethics #StochasticParrots
March 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@emilymbender.bsky.social warned against using LLMs as band-aids in critical systems:
“Education, healthcare, legal, immigration… synthetic text looks like a quick solution. But it’s actually worse than nothing.”
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/aHCBWjR...
#AIethics #StochasticParrots
“Education, healthcare, legal, immigration… synthetic text looks like a quick solution. But it’s actually worse than nothing.”
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/aHCBWjR...
#AIethics #StochasticParrots
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I remember a lightning talk ~2 years ago with a series of experiments showing AI couldn't tell the difference between true and false statements.
It led me to change my exam quesitons from multiple choice to T/F...
Also explains why Apple news summaries are so, so bad.
#stochasticparrots
It led me to change my exam quesitons from multiple choice to T/F...
Also explains why Apple news summaries are so, so bad.
#stochasticparrots
January 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I remember a lightning talk ~2 years ago with a series of experiments showing AI couldn't tell the difference between true and false statements.
It led me to change my exam quesitons from multiple choice to T/F...
Also explains why Apple news summaries are so, so bad.
#stochasticparrots
It led me to change my exam quesitons from multiple choice to T/F...
Also explains why Apple news summaries are so, so bad.
#stochasticparrots
Poem innit.
It was a Samsung Galaxy note
derrangedramblings.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
#poem #poetry #autoCompletePoetry #StochasticParrots
It was a Samsung Galaxy note
derrangedramblings.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
#poem #poetry #autoCompletePoetry #StochasticParrots
The mountainside
Or What my phone wrote in my pocket The mountainside Your beacon. Ever burning I think The mountainside your beacon The mountainside...
derrangedramblings.blogspot.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Poem innit.
It was a Samsung Galaxy note
derrangedramblings.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
#poem #poetry #autoCompletePoetry #StochasticParrots
It was a Samsung Galaxy note
derrangedramblings.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
#poem #poetry #autoCompletePoetry #StochasticParrots
I made a thing while thinking about the problem of Stochastic Parrots.
#Teaching #AI #StochasticParrots
#Teaching #AI #StochasticParrots
December 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I made a thing while thinking about the problem of Stochastic Parrots.
#Teaching #AI #StochasticParrots
#Teaching #AI #StochasticParrots
Full link to the experiment and code in the video, reproduce it yourself! #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #stochasticparrots
I Ran An Experiment That Proves LLM Models Can Reason Beyond Their Training Data
YouTube video by Richard Aragon
youtu.be
December 1, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Full link to the experiment and code in the video, reproduce it yourself! #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #stochasticparrots
/2 Bender et al talk about the outputs of #stochasticparrots as meaningless -form only but not meaning
general understanding is going "down the garden path" - it's the dominant model that animates much critical discourse
general understanding is going "down the garden path" - it's the dominant model that animates much critical discourse
July 9, 2024 at 9:48 PM
/2 Bender et al talk about the outputs of #stochasticparrots as meaningless -form only but not meaning
general understanding is going "down the garden path" - it's the dominant model that animates much critical discourse
general understanding is going "down the garden path" - it's the dominant model that animates much critical discourse
We knew this before the current generation. I'm forever citing the 2021 #stochasticparrots paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
(you don't have to buy the AI tulips, but I get that it's hard work to push back)
(you don't have to buy the AI tulips, but I get that it's hard work to push back)
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
dl.acm.org
November 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
We knew this before the current generation. I'm forever citing the 2021 #stochasticparrots paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
(you don't have to buy the AI tulips, but I get that it's hard work to push back)
(you don't have to buy the AI tulips, but I get that it's hard work to push back)