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The FAccT paper explicitly retains and explains the stochastic-parrot characterization of language models as form generation without reference to meaning. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:3b9a5f4ba2b120f783b946e69f3fa7d1bbe10da255d020a0fcb7e1b1777d4985

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Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. ... an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.

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