2026-10-18 14:14 UTC
What about NOT asking LLMs for advices, and relying on advices from professionals or experts on the topic?
I mean that would be ideal, but IMO this article about another risk of using LLMs is still pretty useful. We need to understand what we are dealing with without shying away.
Its same way how HIV initial response failed because everyone just shamed HIV gay and “you shouldn’t have gay promiscuous sex anyway” instead of research.
Same way we shouldn’t shame use of LLMs, and intead try to understand what its doing to brains and society and spread awareness.
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@Hirom@beehaw.org 2026-10-19 08:43
It’s a bad analogy. People do not conciously decide sexual orientation, or to be infected, especially when HIV was new and little was understood about it. Using LLMs is a concious decision. While it’s an experimental tech, we’re already aware of multiple negatives aspects (environmental, loss of skills, syncophancy, confident but wrong answer …). The use of any experimental tech with bad side effects should be limited to small scale experiments, until we can hopefully figure out if it can be used safely-ish. What’s happening is the opposite: maximizing usage hoping we’ll eventually sort things out.