If the society rewarded me money and fame when I kill someone then I would. Why wouldn't I?

Like it or not, in our society scientists' job is to churn out papers. Of course they'll use the most efficient way to churn out papers.

If I gave you a gun without a safety could you be the one to blame when it goes off because you weren’t careful enough?

The problem with this analogy is that it makes no sense.

LLMs aren’t guns.

The problem with using them is that humans have to review the content for accuracy. And that gets tiresome because the whole point is that the LLM saves you time and effort doing it yourself. So naturally people will tend to stop checking and assume the output is correct, “because the LLM is so good.”

Then you get false citations and bogus claims everywhere.

That doesn't address my point at all but no, I'm not a violent or murderous person. And most people aren't. Many more people do, however, want to take shortcuts to get their work done with the least amount of effort possible.

The issue with this argument, for anyone who comes after, is not when you give a gun to a SINGLE person, and then ask them "would you do a bad thing".

The issue is when you give EVERYONE guns, and then are surprised when enough people do bad things with them, to create externalities for everyone else.

There is some sort of trip up when personal responsibility, and society wide behaviors, intersect. Sure most people will be reasonable, but the issue is often the cost of the number of irresponsible or outright bad actors.

Probably not but, empirically, there are a lot of short tempered people who would.

Ok sure I'm down for this hypothetical. I will bring 50 random people in front of you, and you will hand all 50 of them loaded guns. Still feeling it?

If you look at gun violence in the U.S that is , speaking as a European, kind of what I see happening.