I want to call for a global pause in premature hyperbolic freaking out about LLMs. The scope and breathlessness of people's opining about these systems poses re

I want to call for a global pause in premature hyperbolic freaking out about LLMs. The scope and breathlessness of people's opining about these systems poses real and urgent risks to the public. Both "maybe it's the beginnings of AGI" and "that means maybe it's the beginning of skynet" are not constructive. Because many of these opinion pieces are speculative, they are inherently not based in fact but can scare and distract people, and hinder proper investigation and responses to more material risks by regulators. Posts which cherry-pick successful interactions with LLMs _without awareness of its training data_ may convince humans to inappropriately trust outputs from these models. Posts which cherry-pick interactions in which these models display poor behavior may inappropriately convince humans that their are somehow worse than human-produced content sourced from the world-wide misinformation-swamp and social media harassment cesspit. Please, all tech-spectators and commentators, let's take 6 weeks to gather facts, put things in perspective, check your local library for paper books about nuclear physics, read some Hubert Dreyfus, and resume publishing when it can be done in a responsible and fact-based way.