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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 likely why people consider it to be a slur, due to its origins.


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.


> Being offended on behalf of software is weird.

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

https://paulgraham.com/identity.html




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