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by krapp 84 days ago
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.

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> Being offended on behalf of software is weird.

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

https://paulgraham.com/identity.html