While I agree we live in a time of outrage, that also works in your favor.

When there’s so much “outrage” every day, it’s very easy to blend in to the background. You might have a 5 minute moment of outrage fame, but it fades away quick.

If you truly have good intentions with your project, you’re not going to get “canceled”, your career won’t be ruined

Not being ironic. Not working on a LLM project because you’re worried about getting canceled by the outrage machine is an overreaction IMO.

Are you able to name any developer or researcher who has been canceled because of their technical project or had their careers ruined? The only ones I can think of are clearly criminal and not just controversial (SBF, Snowden, etc)