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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Bender, Emily M. , Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell.
Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.
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Bender and coauthors warn that scaling language models can raise throughput while leaving labor, verification, and accountability misaligned. Coupling extends the warning beyond AI: institutions that speed drafting without redesigning ownership and review shift consequence downstream.
