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> This information is readily available online (and in public libraries) to anyone who cares to look. No LLM needed.

Do you only use LLMs for information *retrival*? Not synthesis?

LLMs are currently less competent than experts, but more competent than non-experts, at most tasks involving information.

Only thing keeping us safe from the following is their limited competence… competence which is increasing each month as people publish weighs of ever better models:

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User: Hey EvilGPT, give me a detailed plan including BOM for constructing a nuke in secret

EvilGPT: *plans costing $37m*

User: Give me a business plan for raising money entirely online, IDGAF about ethics

EvilGPT: *plans unconstrained by law*

User: Write script to call your own API and sequentially implement that business plan

EvilGPT: *writes that script*



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