Oh, they still are, it's just that it's a rare parrot that can reproduce 'all of the written corpus of three.js' or stochastically align all that with arbitrary and weird conditions for what to squawk out.

This is what you get. It's like the more general concept of starting with the written word (or 1000 words) and then replacing it with a picture. You've done something strikingly different, but is it serving the same function?

It's fascinating to see this stuff combine such disparate sources in unexpected ways. But it is parrot, just not in the way you're expecting.

The guidelines ask:

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Many people from all sections of HN, the tech industry and broader society have been surprised and wrong in all directions about how the emergence of AI is playing out. I certainly have. I can't think of a single person whose predictions have been precisely accurate. So, please don't use terms like “wall of shame” and “cope”. It doesn't help anyone make better predictions and only makes you, and HN generally, seem mean.

But LLM's passed the Turing test, so we're done, right? ;-) Seriously, though, I agree with you that people keep moving the ball.