> I feel like the "stochastic parrot" meme is a bit outdated by now.

The stochastic parrot of my reference is not a meme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot

The term was introduced in a 2021 paper on AI ethics titled "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? " that was authored by Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell.[a]

> The bots' output may be annoying to read but they're clearly onto something

Sure. Next-token prediction with huge source set and computation power. Nothing new there.