Bender, five years on: "stochastic parrots" was about LLMs, not all AI (spectrum.ieee.org)
Her clarification is narrow: the phrase covers large language models and text generation only, not chess engines, AlphaFold, or image systems. The vivid "octopus" thought experiment, she says, was a teaching device for non-specialists.
One reader shrugged that the phrase now mostly signals which team you're on.
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