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your stochastic parrot coauthor Timnit
This reply is addressed to Melanie Mitchell, but Timnit Gebru was not Melanie Mitchell’s coauthor on the 2021 "Stochastic Parrots" paper.
Full reasoning
The post is explicitly a reply to @MelMitchell1 (Melanie Mitchell), not to Margaret Mitchell. X's public syndication metadata for this post shows in_reply_to_screen_name: "MelMitchell1" and includes the parent tweet by Melanie Mitchell.
The 2021 paper commonly called the "Stochastic Parrots" paper was authored by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell. Melanie Mitchell is not one of its authors.
So calling Timnit Melanie Mitchell's "coauthor" here is factually incorrect; it appears to confuse Melanie Mitchell with Margaret Mitchell.
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- X syndication JSON for Lucas Beyer reply to Melanie Mitchell
"in_reply_to_screen_name": "MelMitchell1" ... "text": "@MelMitchell1 Because if you read the quote-thread you're continuing here, your stochastic parrot coauthor Timnit..."
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? | ML Anthology
Authors: Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Margaret Mitchell.
the thing you both coined
This reply is to Melanie Mitchell, but Melanie Mitchell did not co-coin the "stochastic parrot" term in the 2021 paper.
Full reasoning
This post is replying to Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1), as shown in the tweet metadata. But the phrase and paper at issue — the 2021 "Stochastic Parrots" paper — were authored by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell.
That means Melanie Mitchell is not one of the people who "coined" the term in that paper. The claim confuses Melanie Mitchell with Margaret Mitchell, one of the actual coauthors.
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- X syndication JSON for Lucas Beyer reply to Melanie Mitchell
"in_reply_to_screen_name": "MelMitchell1" ... "text": "@MelMitchell1 Because if you read the quote-thread you're continuing here ... So of the two of you already wildly disagree on what the thing you both coined..."
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? | ML Anthology
Authors: Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Margaret Mitchell.