Comment by pixl97

>It is possible to do worse than doing nothing.

Individually or over populations?

If you look at anything individually the answer for anything involving humans is don't do anything at all, ever.

When looking at things statistically actual trends on how dangerous or useful something is will begin to stand out. Lets come up with some completely made up statistics as an example.

"1 out of 10,000 ChatGPT users will commit suicide due to using an LLM for therapy"

sounds terrible, shut it down right.

"2 out of 10,000 people that do not use an LLM or seek professional therapy commit suicide" (again this is imaginary)

Now all of a sudden the application of statistics show that people using LLMs are 50% less likely to kill themselves versus the baseline.

Is this the actual case of how they work, probably not, but we do need more information.