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@munificent This is not a popular viewpoint round here, but I think the sudden concern about externalities is weird. Nobody cared about video cards energy consumption as long as they were used only for gaming.

Societal impact is potentially much more important, but it really depends on what exactly are LLMs capable of. If they can do everything humans can do (which seems hard to believe, but then it's hard to believe they work as well as they do in the first place), then we're all hosed anyhow.

@munificent Under this assumption, the answer to this question seems to be quite simple: you'd use it when only achieving the result counts.

And there certainly are circumstances when this is the case, so the really unclear thing is what kind of things LLMs can genuinely help with. E.g. if they can really produce novel medicaments at a fraction of the time and price it currently takes to do it, they would certainly be worth the hype, wouldn't they?