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The dangers of using proprietary LLMs for research

Étienne Ollion, Rubing Shen, Ana Macanovic, Arnault Chatelain

The release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 has thrust large language models (LLMs) into the limelight. In this paper, we discuss the merits and limits of using proprietary LLMs for (social) scientific research.