[estearum]

> unless you're irresponsible enough to connect an LLM to something that actually matters.

Can't tell if you're saying this tongue-in-cheek or you're a bit out of the loop on what people are doing with LLMs.

And a quick correction:

> unless someone, somewhere is irresponsible enough to connect an LLM to something that actually matters.

[pjc50]

"You" can be used as a generalized plural here. Of course people are connecting LLMs to bank accounts, power grids, airline sales, account recovery chatbots and so on. I no longer read COMP.RISKS but I imagine they're having fun with this.

[estearum]

The thing I'm pointing out is that even if you (the generalized plural) do not engage in reckless behavior, you are at the mercy of the lowest common denominator of fellow earth-inhabitants increasingly armed with superweapons via a $20/mo subscription.

The need to acquire expertise and/or a meaningful following has always been a significant impediment to malicious or moronic actors. But less so every day.

[Terr_]

> the lowest common denominator

LLMs are going to be like asbestos.

A legitimate and irreplaceable tool for certain narrow tasks, but it's going to be be stuffed in a ton of astonishingly-unwise places to make a buck, and the rest of us will be dealing with the aftereffects for decades.