Regarding Seattle Worldcon’s use of OpenAI’s LLM for gathering information on presenters.
@seattlein2025Seattle Worldcon 2025
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
First of all, thank you for publicly disclosing your use of an LLM. That must have been a courageous announcement.
Here are my thoughts. With today’s o3, it should indeed be possible to research participants’ backgrounds, and I believe its hallucination rate is far lower than the biases of human staff.

Statement From Worldcon Chair
We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large Language Model (LLM).
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