[razodactyl]

I think we're very far removed from the context behind the safety reasoning with GPT2. An uncensored model capable of spewing a torrent of deceptive and completely believable information was quite unheard of at the time. It would be problematic for such a technology to be released out of nowhere.

The later iterations are heavily censored so the public was provided a bit of a transition period before things got too chaotic.

I'm sure there were many other reasons the authors themselves weren't aware of at the time such as the inundation of AI content skewing further training quality.

Of course this is a roundabout explanation, there's always more detail that can be added and I'd rather be objective. There's always a financial motive for companies too so take that into consideration. The hype definitely played into their marketing.