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Originally Posted by Sirtel
LLMs are not the only invention we use that was built upon illegal activity. Some medical solutions, for example, were built upon the experimentation that Nazi Germany and the Japanese conducted on prisoners during WWII. Often very sadistic experimentation. And yet these solutions have saved many lives later.
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The ethics of using any data at all from unethical experiments is, as you must know, incredibly controversial in scientific and medical fields.
On the Nazi concentration camp data specifically, the bulk of it was not actually quality, useful research in the first place. There's a pretty decent & readable summary of that here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria...utions_to_the/