AnalysisAI ModelsSeptember 18, 2026

Cory Doctorow: LLM statistical extrapolation has hard limits

Doctorow argues naive "theory-free" statistical extrapolation — the method LLMs rely on — works for finding statistical regularity but has hard limits. He calls the plausibility of LLM-generated sentences the most remarkable thing about the method.

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