[realPtolemy]

Could there also be a “legal hedging” reason for why you would release a paper like this?

By reaffirming that “we don’t know how this works, nobody does” it’s easier to avoid being charged with copyright infringement from various actors/data sources that have sued them.

[ben_w]

I'd be surprised if doing so had any impact on the lawsuits, but I'm not a lawyer.

[icandoit]

If you know how it works, you can make it better,faster,cheaper.

Without the 300k starting salaries. I imagine that is a stronger incentive.

It's the users of the LLMs that want to launder repsonsibility behind "computer said no".

[dimitrios1]

"I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that"