By John ThickstunSource:
The Guardian TechnologyIf OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that?
On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse.
I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without access to the model there wasn’t much for a researcher like me to learn about GPT-2.
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