LLMs Are Bad at Good Things, Good at Bad Things

For example, Open AI recently offered students two months of free access to ChatGPT Plus, between March 31, 2025, and May 31, 2025. If the intended use was tutoring, the offer would have begun earlier in the year, when classes started. Instead, the offer began when papers and final exams are due, with the obvious intention of hooking students on us... See more

LLMs may be able to generate unseemly profits in the same way that tobacco and pharmaceutical companies profited from peddling addictive cigarettes and opioids.