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Can I ethically use LLMs?

onday, February 17, 2025 The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer.

It's good to turn off unnecessary lights, but doing so isn't going to solve the climate crisis; we need bigger, more sweeping reforms. We'd have a much larger impact on improving the climate crisis by advocating for remote work—reducing vehicles on the road, making many flights unnecessary—than by not training models. One of the major well-known problems of LLMs is a tendency to "hallucinate," or to confidently state facts that are made up from whole cloth.

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