[nemomarx]

Was it that quickly? GPT 3 is where I would kind of put the start of this and that was in 2020, they had to work on the technology for quite a while before it got like this. Everyone else has been able to follow their progress and see what works.

[dantyti]

GPT 2 didn't have a chat interface but had made a splash in some circles (think spam-adjacent).

Edit: mixed up my dates claiming DALL E came out before GPT 3

[beeflet]

I remember subredditsimulator was big (based on GPT and GPT2), but there was some confusion because no one could get ahold of these models