Imagine if OpenAI instead crawled the Earth for shedded human hair and skin cell samples, did advanced genetic engineering and started growing GMO humans and put them in society "for free", would there be an equivalent outrage? I honestly don't know.
Experimenting on humans requires consent.
If so, you need to show how something needing to be done necessarily results in it actually being done. Many things that need to be done are not actually done.
Posting LLMs content is cheap, easy, undetectable
Bad actors (or just greedy) are heavily incentivised to use and not to disclose LLMs use
It then follows that LLMs, by their nature, lead inevitably to 'grotesquely unethical' behaviour.
There are no guard rails, nothing, to stop LLMs being used in grotesquely unethical ways.
Other things that were grotesquely unethical: unit 731, tuskegee syphilis study, mengele, etc.
LLMs are inherently flawed and their consequences monstrous, thus they have to be destroyed.
Given, of course, that we agree on all this being 'grotesquely unethical'.
If it's 'grotesquely unethical' then all LLMs need to be destroyed and all research on LLMs stopped immediately.
The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader.