Starting to notice parallels between the way people talk about large language models now and the way people talked about genetically modified crops thirty years ago.

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@dynamic The "surely the science won't be used for evil" crowd? I hate to admit it, but I was on that side with GMOs. is no excuse!

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Genetic engineering sounds so innocuous when it gets framed as "humans have been modifying the genes of domesticated plants and animals for thousands of years; this is just a more sophisticated way to do it."

It looks really different when you understand how clumsy the technology has been, and how clumsily it has been deployed.

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