Anti-LLM Sentiment Considered Harmful

exaexa: > On a happier side note about related news, I recommend looking at Rust development of their LLM policy (essentially a very softly elaborated ban, which is nice to see), and especially some of the related slashback on the avoidance of discussion of ethical concerns. A very unfortunately-worded disturbing trigger statement is now edited out of the PR, but perhaps it will be visible in history or in various related posts [content warning for F words]. Yikes, that discussion looks like quite the prickly bush. I can imagine it must be very difficult to discuss a topic like that where so many people have such strong, and such opposing views. I’m willing to bet that there cannot exist a policy on something this controversial without at least some people calling the authors names over it (e.g. “coward”). I suppose that’s just what you have to deal with if you’re in a leading role of such a big project. Some hard decisions will need to be made that will make a lot of people extremely unhappy. Both on the policy itself as well as the discussion about the policy. Looking at the policy itself, it seems like they tried to put a lot of nuance in. It is neither a full ban not a full toleration of LLM use.