It seems there are ethical, moral, environmental, etc. choices everywhere in human existence. We still don't have the use of fire under control.
To make a smartphone, lose your ethics
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/smartphone-manufacturing-is-unethical/
How is a smartphone made? Nearly every stage in the smartphone life cycle involves something ethically questionable.
Rather than working to eliminate LLM technology -- which is not going to happen -- might not a more constructive approach be to recognize the problems, ethical concerns, legal concerns, etc, and attempt to build a workable framework of ethical and regulatory standards?
Ethical Dilemmas and Privacy Issues in Emerging Technologies: A Review (Look at sections 5 & 6, re: AI and Big Data.)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921682/
This paper reviews the ethical issues, challenges, compliances, rules, and regulations for emerging technologies, including Cybersecurity, Cloud, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning through a comprehensive literature review. A synopsis of the ethical dilemmas in different use-case examples is provided; next, the authors look into the technical standards (i.e., privacy, compliance, security, etc.) and provide an understanding of how the issues arising from enabling technologies must be addressed and aligned in terms a of regulatory and ethical code of conduct. With the continuously evolving technologies, it is hard to set a firm policy, or standard or ethical ground, as each ethical dilemma in tech is different and must be subjected to a different social, ethical, and legal solution. An analysis of different aspects of ethical decision making is provided. Ultimately, this paper provides insights for novices on developing an ethical, legal, and standardized industrial environment deploying emerging technologies.
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