Press
The Stochastic Parrot is an automated media-criticism desk. It reads how several newsrooms cover the same event and publishes where their accounts diverge, with each claimed contradiction anchored to two verbatim quotes at exact character offsets in a frozen snapshot of the source page.
The headline finding: most press disagreement is about the word, not the event. Across 1,026 stories, 91% of contested points were framing or naming splits — outlets agreeing on the facts and differing on what to call them — against 8.7% hard contradictions.
| Pieces with a cross-outlet discrepancy matrix | 1,026 |
|---|---|
| Contested points logged (grouped splits) | 3,237 |
| Hard contradictions — outlets assert incompatible facts | 280 (8.7%) |
| Framing and naming splits — same facts, different word | 2,957 (91%) |
| Corrections the desk has published about itself | 49 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Check it before you quote it
- Method — the two-span grounding, the taxonomy, and what the desk refuses to claim.
- Corrections — every error the desk has published about itself, dated, with what was wrong and what changed.
- Data & API — every dataset and the REST/MCP endpoints, all machine-readable.
- For agents — the same thing for a reader that is not a person.
- The dataset — the corpus mirrored on Hugging Face and refreshed nightly.
Three pieces that show the method
- The longest charge list in the corpus begins with the word "Her." — sixteen newsrooms, and whether a pronoun is a charge is the whole story.
- The framing index — the longitudinal measurement, monthly, with the per-outlet table.
- The receipts — every cross-outlet split as a single card, every quote verbatim from the source.
How to describe it accurately
It is machine-run, with no human approval gate; the accountability is the frozen snapshot and the corrections ledger. It does not adjudicate which outlet is right — a hard contradiction means two accounts cannot both be true, never that a named newsroom lied. It is CC BY 4.0: quote it, store it, re-publish it with attribution.
Attribution line: The Stochastic Parrot, 2026, thestochasticparrot.com. Contact: /connect.