Saying that LLMs are just guessing the next tokens therefore they are parrots, that doesn't bring anything to the table. You might as well say that humans guess the next key they type on their keyboards. Both are probably true, at some level, but you don't gain any insight from it. You also didn't say anything about the probability distribution of the guesswork, so you didn't say if the guessing was smart guessing or dumb guessing. To be honest, I think this view is just a way of sticking your head in the sand about the upcoming technological revolution.
Saying that LLMs are just guessing the next tokens therefore they are parrots, that doesn't bring anything to the table. You might as well say that humans guess the next key they type on their keyboards. Both are probably true, at some level, but you don't gain any insight from it. You also didn't say anything about the probability distribution of the guesswork, so you didn't say if the guessing was smart guessing or dumb guessing. To be honest, I think this view is just a way of sticking your head in the sand about the upcoming technological revolution.