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Multiple readings No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Will Oremus
“I reposted this, but tacking itonto this thread as well bc I think it's useful context. Margaret was also a co-author of the Stochastic Parrots paper and recently offered some thoughts on which parts of the analogy hold up (and which have been widely misund…” evidence ↗
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Margaret Mitchell Will Oremus Brian Merchant Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Meredith Rose
17 experts discussed this · 104 posts
Will Oremus: feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying…
Will Oremus: you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than ju…
Will Oremus: or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self…
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LLM story diversity diagnosis paper

Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 5 attributable expert contributions · Ted Underwood, David Mimno, Eryk Salvaggio
“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood David Mimno Eryk Salvaggio Grace Sil Hamilton
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“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”

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Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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