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by mexicocitinluez 27 days ago
> his is as dangerous as people talking together on e.g. Facebook groups. I've seen people give flat out dangerous advice, and other people take it.

Not even remotely close. A large portion of people in the field still don't understand how LLM's work let alone your grandmother on Facebook. They're apples and oranges.

> There is use for this software, and no greater need to bury it or unmake it than it is to bury or unmake Facebook groups or other discussion venues.

Discussion forums are nothing like an LLM. People don't assume the other person on the forum is magic. Again, these are totally different things that have no correlation with each other. People have been in some form of forum for hundreds of thousands of years. They have no experienced a genie that has ingested the entirety of human knowledge. They're just flat out 2 different things.

And you're experience as a single person doesn't mean that experience is universal. I quite literally work with clinicians and patients every day. Clinicians aren't evne sure how to use these tools (with actual clinical knowledge), but yet we're ready to shoot them out to consumers? It's wild.

Of course there is a need to get better info, but that doesn't then follow that the route of that should be an unregulated, unlicensed LLM.