[sameerds]

I am hearing this term for the first time but I love it. It is novel and creates a picture. Exactly what Scott Adams says about labels used for persuasion. I usually say "highly trained autocomplete" in discussions at work, but I am going to say "stochastic parrot" from now on.

[zzzeek]

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]

You 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]

> Being offended on behalf of software is weird.

Yes. I can really recommend this essay of PG about that:

https://paulgraham.com/identity.html