[cowsup]

> > The problem is not journalist,

>

> What was the reason for the takedown

The system was not doing what the team said it did. Journalists documented this and demonstrated it, which caused Meta to shut it down, but journalists didn’t break it.

Blaming journalists for this is like blaming the smoke detector for interrupting your movie before the fire could.

[seydor]

No, some people on twitter highlighted the imperfections of the model and branded it DANGEROUS, despite the fact that it had a whole page disclaimer that it is indeed hallucinating. It was brought to attention in some media which led to the researchers turning it off. We already know the "dangerous" trope from GPT3 and we know it's BS.

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1593156854372532231