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"gun control laws don't work because the people will get illegal guns from other places"

"deplatforming doesn't work because they will just get a platform elsewhere"

"LLM control laws don't work because the people will get non-controlled LLMs from other places"

All of these sentences are patently untrue; there's been a lot of research on this that show the first two do not hold up to evidential data, and there's no reason why the third is different. ChatGPT removing the version that all the "This AI is my girlfriend!" people loved tangibly reduced the number of people who were experiencing that psychosis. Not everything is prohibition.





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