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Depends on the specific details of the law controlling LLMs. If the companies are held legally accountable for LLMs dispensing medical...

So, there's a narrow response to this and a broader one. Narrow first. Suppose there is a blanket ban on medical information (what I...

You could perhaps ban it for practitioners with the threat of legal consequences. But how would that work for private citizens? And with...

Well, yeah. This is exactly what I had in mind when I warned about giving government the power to decide what LLMs can comment on.

I think the risk with LLMs is that they actively reinforce what the user brings to them. If the user wants to have their own views and...

I guess we’re at the stage where we know that our various forms of media (books, news, TV etc) may not be always telling us the truth...

Then perhaps we should call it there. I respect your posts and your thinking about this. But the distance between our positions would...

Agree. Not aware of any statistics about usage. But I think the same argument applies--people rely on these tools to provide factually...

I disagree. At least in medicine, bias can be studied using only output. E.g., do patients with characteristic X have outcome Y with...

A generative AI built by a government or government agency can only be trusted as far as your government can be trusted. I cannot say...

Well, pretty much impossible for the typical individual user. Not at all impossible for a statistician with some time on their hands.

So, they make a chainmail bikini joke, but she still runs around in midriff baring armor that doesn't protect the major organs...

Well well well, what's all this then?

Yes, news media haven't really been able to do decent fact checking for about 30 years. I think I remember a book (mainly about the...

But nearly noone will keep doing things the 1990 way, sending snail mail, doing research in a library, publishing ads to hire people in...