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oh, OK. You should google the term to see where it comes from. it's from someone who is essentially an anti-LLM activist and it's meant as a slur. That's li
by zzzeek 7mo ago
oh, OK. You should google the term to see where it comes from. it's from someone who is essentially an anti-LLM activist and it's meant as a slur. That's likely why people consider it to be a slur, due to its origins.
- krapp 7mo agoYou can't make a "slur" against software. It isn't a person, it doesn't have feelings. "stochastic parrot" describes what an LLM does, that it (like a parrot) generates coherent human language without understanding its meaning. Being offended on behalf of software is weird.
- f1shy 7mo ago> Being offended on behalf of software is weird. Yes. I can really recommend this essay of PG about that: https://paulgraham.com/identity.html https://paulgraham.com/identity.html