Sure, just as long as we don't blame LLMs.
Blame people, bad actors, systems of incentives, the gods, the devils, but never broach the fault of LLMs and their wide spread abuse.
Blame people, bad actors, systems of incentives, the gods, the devils, but never broach the fault of LLMs and their wide spread abuse.
Blaming LLMs is unproductive. They are not going anywhere (especially since open source LLMs are so good.)
If we want to achieve real change, we need to accept that they exist, understand how that changes the scientific landscape and our options to go from here.
I think such statements are likely projections of people's own unwillingness to part with such tools given their own personal perceived utility.
I, for one, wouldn't give up LLMs. Too useful to me personally. So, I will always seek them out.
I'old enough to remember when GAN where going to be used to scam millions of people and flood social media with fake profiles.
Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and South Africa have nuclear weapons while not having the right to do so. So I'm not sure how banning graphics cards, thing we are already failing at in China right now will ever work. Especially if countries like China develop their own chip building capacities.
LLMs are not submitting these papers on their own, people are. As far as I'm concerned, whatever blame exists rests on those people and the system that rewards them.
Guns are entirely inert objects, devoid of either free will nor volition, they have no rights and no responsibilities.
LLMs likewise.
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/421467-to-every-man-is-give...
LLMs are not the root of the problem here.