It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

@Joshsharp "Putting aside the moral and ethical implications, don't you think I'd look hot wearing these conflict diamonds?"

@bstacey

"Putting aside the moral and ethical implications, I enjoy posting stuff on Mastodon using my genocide processor and genocide graphics chip"

https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/115439665670630737