“Like powering an engine with the methane that comes from decomposing corpses in a graveyard.”
– Computational Poet
Allison Parrish, using a visceral analogy to characterize how large language models (LLMs) compose new text from old text. In conversation with
Joanne McNeil about generative AI, Parrish describes LLMs as “inherently conservative. They encode the past, literally.”
