On the one hand, these LLM companies really shouldn’t be foisting their beta technology on unwary users. If a Google employee couldn’t tell someone to kill themselves and get away with it, why is it that they get to absolve themselves of responsibility if the sentence is generated by an LLM?

On the other hand, people in the future will look at the early LLM users (people who used it in the first few years) as complete idiots. It’s like the scientists who first studied radiation who just poked at radioactive things without understanding the danger. Or, like doctors who used to do surgery without washing their hands. They’ll hopefully understand that it was a new technology so we were dumb about it. But, they’ll still think that people were absolute idiots for feeding text into “spicy autocomplete” and then taking whatever it generated at face value.