Oxide's Responsible Approach to LLM Usage: Human Judgment in the Loop
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steveklabnik
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Summary
This article discusses Oxide's approach to using Large Language Models (LLMs) within their organization, framed through the company's core values. The primary focus is on responsibility as the guiding principle, emphasizing that LLMs are tools that must remain under human oversight and judgment. The article explores how Oxide employees maintain accountability for all artifacts created, even when using LLM automation, ensuring human judgment remains firmly in the loop throughout the process.
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Oxide employees bear responsibility for the artifacts we create, whatever automation we might employ to create them.
That is, human judgement remains firmly in the loop: even if or as an LLM is generating an artifact that we will use.
As is our wont, it’s helpful to look at LLM use through the lens of our values,
several of which come to mind, listed here in priority order:
