The fact that you cannot perceive the harms, or that they are not yet apparent, does not mean they do not exist. Look at Facebook and other social media: at fi

The fact that you cannot perceive the harms, or that they are not yet apparent, does not mean they do not exist. Look at Facebook and other social media: at first we all thought it was great and then we realized it's a giant depression machine, and all it's really good for is giving young girls eating disorders. But since we're on the topic, the immediate casualties seem to be the livelihoods of authors and artists, on whose content the LLMs were trained and who received no compensation. And now every publisher is inundated with infinite ChatGPT-created books. We won't get into the climate impact of wasting all that compute just to create a better phishing-email generator.