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    Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2021

    On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

    Emily M. Bender (first author) · 2021

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    DOI 10.1145/3442188.3445922OpenAlex W3133702157

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    Why it matters

    Landmark critique of language-model scaling, environmental costs, data exploitation, and societal harms.

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    2021 (from oracle lists)
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    6,929 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
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    0.501 · computed rank 235 · consensus 0.36, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.979 (2020s · safety), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

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