[ebb_earl_co]

> … stochastic parrots… What a wonderful phrase, mind if I borrow it?

[CamperBob2]

Never mind the phrase. If your parrot can compete in international math and programming competitions at the gold-medal level and make entire subreddits fail the Turing test, I would like to borrow your parrot.

[airstrike]

It's commonly used at this point, for what it's worth

[cmrdporcupine]

"the term stochastic parrot is a metaphor, introduced by Emily M. Bender and colleagues in a 2021 paper, that frames large language models as systems that statistically mimic text without real understanding"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

[ajkjk]

you don't have to get permission

plus, they didn't come up with it