[simonw]

> As a friend commented, "these language models should never have been made available to the general public", only to researchers.

That feels to me like a dystopian timeline that we've only very narrowly avoided.

It wouldn't just have been researchers: it would have been researchers and the wealthy.

I'm so relieved that most human beings with access to an internet-connected device have the ability to try this stuff and work to understand what it can and cannot do themselves.