Rogue deployments or not, the spectre of foisting environmental destructive LLM toys to negatively impact people’s lives while the cloistered makers decide whether to improve them is going to irreparable harm millions of lives that would’ve otherwise not been harmed.
Mod note: I approved this comment, but it feels a bit borderline for me as a first-comment on LessWrong (i.e. making sweeping claims with some emotional rhetoric without supplying actual argumentation. I think this is okay sometimes but better when you’ve got more track record of explaining your beliefs better)
Rogue deployments or not, the spectre of foisting environmental destructive LLM toys to negatively impact people’s lives while the cloistered makers decide whether to improve them is going to irreparable harm millions of lives that would’ve otherwise not been harmed.
Mod note: I approved this comment, but it feels a bit borderline for me as a first-comment on LessWrong (i.e. making sweeping claims with some emotional rhetoric without supplying actual argumentation. I think this is okay sometimes but better when you’ve got more track record of explaining your beliefs better)