[throwaway189262]

I think it's more that they're trying to avoid association with the most obvious use case for GPT3. Generating spam, fake content, fake reviews, fake news.

It's whole purpose is generating unlimited amounts of believable fiction. Without tight control the internet would be overrun with GPT generated trash. Bans would be called for, just like what's happening with deepfakes. That's bad for business

[quickthrower2]

They are trying to keep a genie in the bottle then!

[ravi-delia]

And for these wonderful few months, they have succeeded. Eventually someone will train a similarly sized model and release it, but the costs involved may well be high enough for long enough that the common spammer won't be able to for a little bit.