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Stochastic Mirrors rather than Stochastic Parrots?

1•EdNutting•1h ago
Would it be more helpful to people if we described generative AI as a “stochastic mirror” - an approximate reflection of reality - rather than as a “stochastic parrot”?

This term perhaps encompasses a broader range of Generative AI models (image, video, etc).

It might also help people to understand why well-generated text may still not be an accurate description of reality. The generated text may be linguistically excellent (syntactically correct) and yet still not be an accurate reflection of anyone’s reality (semantically wrong).

Has anyone else come up with this alternative term before? I could only find some algorithm using the term which isn’t the same as what I mean.

U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization....
3•reaperducer•2m ago•0 comments

Never Pay for Online Dating

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1•sogen•4m ago•1 comments

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1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Exposed: Investigative journalism on radiation exposure during air travel

https://www.scrippsnews.com/scripps-news-investigates/exposed
1•DrZootron•7m ago•0 comments

What if the reason we can't find Dark Matter is simply because it doesn't exist?

https://zenodo.org/records/17911993
2•emsti•10m ago•1 comments

Purchase by Bending Spoons (Harvest App)

https://old.reddit.com/r/HarvestApp/comments/1q25xpy/purchase_by_bending_spoons/
1•mikhael•10m ago•0 comments

Trump threatens pollsters after New York Times survey shows sagging disapproval

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/trump-poll-nyt-approval-00740786
4•SilverElfin•11m ago•0 comments

Clj-pack – Package Clojure apps into self-contained binaries without GraalVM

https://github.com/avelino/clj-pack
1•avelino•12m ago•1 comments

Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319
1•MaysonL•13m ago•0 comments

Signal's Censorship Circumvention is susceptible to AiTM attacks

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2•cyb0rg0•13m ago•1 comments

Bugs Apple Loves

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34•nhod•16m ago•2 comments

Shamash is a powerful JVM architecture enforcement tool for teams

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1•aalsanie•16m ago•1 comments

How Space Manufacturing Could Be Revolutionary – Scott Manley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sH2a57eXM
1•connorboyle•17m ago•0 comments

Tailscale and BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex

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1•ryanhn•18m ago•0 comments

TikTok closes deal with White House to split US app from global business

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Walmart Commerce SDK for Unity video games

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3•qingcharles•33m ago•0 comments

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2•pseudolus•34m ago•1 comments

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1•pseudolus•40m ago•0 comments

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6•petethomas•40m ago•0 comments

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1•ceroxylon•43m ago•1 comments

Code: Testing acceleration-domain normalization on SPARC galaxy data

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1•JasonResearch•43m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?

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Tell HN: We have not yet discovered the rules of vibe coding

1•0xbadcafebee•1h ago•0 comments

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2•breve•1h ago•0 comments

China's oldest carmaker begins testing solid-state EV batteries in vehicles

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2•breve•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Please wish me luck for my exam

3•Imustaskforhelp•1h ago•1 comments