Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: I keep coming back to the leaded petrol analogy for LLMs and coding Harms that are ...
I keep coming back to the leaded petrol analogy for LLMs and coding
Harms that are manageable when it's only used by a small number of experts become catastrophic pollution when it's used broadly throughout society
If LLMs were only used by a small number of experienced devs working with well-engineered guardrails, we'd have less of a problem
But once they start getting more commonly used, they start to pollute the entire ecosystem and the only way forward is stiff regulation for everybody
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