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  1. @thelabandfield.bsky.social Such comments are given more and more to real human artists and writers, too. People using #AISlop often have no more feeling for #reality. They don't know that #imageGenerators and #LLM are trained by abusing the human work of #photographers, #artists, #writers. Those people have no more eyes for real human's work

    And I even presume that such comments are the new hate speech of the jealous ones.

    #noAI #realHumans #humanmade #StochasticParrots

  2. among the more obscure ideas was

    the need for data centers to fix #ClimateCrisis

    hello? we already know what to do, no need to consult #StochasticParrots

  3. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  4. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

    #publicSafety #safety #LLM #privacy #hacking #stochasticParrots #chatBots

  5. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  6. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  7. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  8. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  9. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  10. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots

  11. "The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.

    The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"

    #ScotPol
    #Holyrood2026
    #GenAI
    #LLMs
    #StochasticParrots

    theguardian.com/technology/202

  12. AIは、質問されない質問について考えるのが得意🤖。パラドックス?倫理?🤔 まだまだ議論の余地あり! #AI #倫理 #StochasticParrots 🦜

  13. @emilymbender revisits and clarifies (unasked) questions about stochastic parrots - the paper and the phrase.

    It's a worthwhile reminder that the purveyors of LLM software are hijacking our human language processing capabilities to fool us into believing that we're talking to an entity that does not exist. The output provided by an LLM seems designed to trigger our criteria for extending the assumption of humanity to our conversational partners.

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    #LLM #StochasticParrots

  14. RE: infosec.exchange/@patrickcmill

    Treat AI agents like the shadiest offshore engineer you ever hired, and you’ll be fine.

    Oh, before today, you’d never hired anyone, trained anyone, managed performance, or fired anyone?

    Ever?

    I think I found the problem with AI agents.

    It rhymes with #StochasticParrots.

  15. “To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”

    #StochasticParrots
    #LLMs
    #GenAI

    theguardian.com/technology/202

  16. @bluetea @Urban_Hermit @Numerfolt @Andres4NY @paninid Is this tacit acceptance of the use of plagiarism-by-chatbot common across academia now? It seems to me toxic to the whole project of education.

    #Plagiarism
    #StochasticParrots
    #AI
    #LLMs

  17. @bluetea @Urban_Hermit @Numerfolt @Andres4NY @paninid

    If you're confident it's #AI slop, does it merit any marks at all? That's not the student's work, it's plagiarism.

    When I was at university, if you copied someone else's work without attribution, you got expelled, end of. And if you *just* copied someone else's work without adding anything, null points.

    #LLMs
    #StochasticParrots