What Brian Merchant thinks about LLMs

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Journalist and author; writes Blood in the Machine, a newsletter on AI, tech, labor and power, and wrote the book of the same name on the Luddites.

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1. 2 Oct 2026

   Our readingThe 'stochastic parrots' description remains a fundamentally accurate way of describing large language models, despite their added sophistication

   Their wordsNow, while LLMs and technologies described as AI today have become more sophisticated and complex over the last 5 years, the term remains a fundamentally accurate way of describing LLMs.

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