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Why LLMs Are Not Stochastic Parrots: How Modern AI Training Actually Reasons

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Something I keep running into — especially in opinions from people in the humanities or artistic circles, but also from some engineers — is the claim that LLMs are "stochastic parrots" that don't think or reason, that they only repeat what they saw in training, driven by statistics. Another common…

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  1. 2026-08-26 14:23 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Why LLMs Are Not Stochastic Parrots: How Modern AI Training Actually Reasons

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