I believe that technical work which enhances safety culture is generally very positive.
All of the examples that you mentioned share one critical non-technical aspect though. Their results are publicly available (I guess they were funded by general public, e.g. in case of “BadLlama”—by donations and grants to a foundation Palisade Research and IIIT, an Indian national institute). If you took the very same “technical” research and have it only available to a potentially shady private company, then that technical information could help them to indeed circumvent Llama’s safeguards. At that point, I’m not sure if one could still confidently call it “overwhelmingly positive”.
I agree that the works that you mentioned are very positive, but I think that the above non-technical aspect is necessary to take into consideration.
All of the examples that you mentioned share one critical non-technical aspect though. Their results are publicly available (I guess they were funded by general public, e.g. in case of “BadLlama”—by donations and grants to a foundation Palisade Research and IIIT, an Indian national institute). If you took the very same “technical” research and have it only available to a potentially shady private company, then that technical information could help them to indeed circumvent Llama’s safeguards. At that point, I’m not sure if one could still confidently call it “overwhelmingly positive”.
I agree that the works that you mentioned are very positive, but I think that the above non-technical aspect is necessary to take into consideration.