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The main worry, in my opinion, is an issue of responsibility. If the author services makes a mistake, a person will be blamed for it. But when an LLM makes a mi
by AlienRobot 1y ago
The main worry, in my opinion, is an issue of responsibility. If the author services makes a mistake, a person will be blamed for it. But when an LLM makes a mistake, people tend to shift the responsibility from the person that used the LLM to the LLM itself.
People don't simply want to shift the effort of a task away from themselves, they also want to shift away the responsibility for doing it wrong.
- diggan 1y ago> If the author services makes a mistake, a person will be blamed for it Wouldn't the paper authors be "blamed" (held responsible) for it, rather than the "Author Services"? Ultimately, they're responsible for the quality of their paper. Just like I'm responsible for making sure my taxes are paid correctly, even if I use an account, tax lawyer and financial advisor for the whole shebang. If anything is incorrect, I'll be held responsible.
- AlienRobot 1y agoYes, but this will only happen after a mistake occurs. What I mean is that if it's your responsibility to do something right, it acts a deterrent that motivates you to make sure of it. LLM's allow people to defer this responsibility to the LLM, so they may avoid making sure of things because they let the LLM take upon their responsibility.
- diggan 1y agoIf anything, wouldn't it be the opposite? When you offload something to a human, at least you can say "it was their fault!" and point to an actual name, or similar. But you can't use a tool and then say "it was their fault!" and point to the screen, it's not another entity like the "Author Services" is.
- AlienRobot 1y agoIt's the same thing, but normally there wouldn't be "a human" because this chain of delegations stopped on you. Now you can just open ChatGPT.