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LLMs are trained on public data (as well as illegally obtained data see: Anthropic 1.5B settlement). LLMs are nothing without the huge corpus of human data that powers them. There is an argument that research of this kind should be restricted to governments and regulated universities rather than opaque public companies with competing incentives. Or research should be stewarded by genuine non-profit collectives with democratic leadership. e.g. like internet standards, telecom, etc

I do not think we can trust private companies, no matter the virtue signaling they put forth into the world, to effectively regulate themselves and inform the public and scientific communities about risks. Their ongoing conflict of interest poses serious credibility risks.