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Emily Bender Clarifies Stochastic Parrots Metaphor
The 2021 paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" argued that LLMs predict word sequences without true comprehension. Emily Bender and her co-authors used this analogy to critique the scale of large models. The term now dominates public discourse on AI understanding, though its application often drifts from the original academic intent.