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Oof, programmers calling LLMs "AI" - that's embarrassing. Glorified text generators don't need ethics, what's the risk? Making the Internet's worst texts available? Who cares.
I'm from an era when the Anarchists Cook Book, and The Unabombers Manifesto were both widely available - and I'm betting they still are.
There's no obligation to protect people from "dangerous text" - there might be an obligation to allow people access to them though.
...but LLMs quite literally come from the field of computer science that is referred to as "AI." What are they supposed to call it? I'm not a fan of the technology either, but seems like you're just projecting your disdain for ChatGPT.
...really dude? They're large language models, not artificial intelligences. So that's what you call them. Because that's what they are.
The fact that they came from research into artificial intelligence doesn't factor in. Microwave ovens came from radar research, doesn't mean we call them radars, does it?
They are 100% ai. They run on neural networks which were some of the first AIs.