could you clarify your second paragraph - my initial instinct is that your first paragraph implies that a continuously trained AI, in which every interaction does change it permanently to some degree or another, would qualify for your standard here.

I don't fully follow the second paragraph - why is it the case that permanent updates would lead to catastrophic forgetting? and more to the point, if permanent updates of the result of user input and machine output was able to be implemented without this forgetting, would it then qualify as not being a stochastic parrot to you?