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A preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-generative-turn-on-ais-as-stochastic-parrots-and-art/

The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ...