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by smoghat 60 days ago
But like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...

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And the "too dangerous to release" capability was writing somewhat plausible news articles based on a headline or handwritten beginning of an article. In the same style as what you had written

Today we call that "advanced autocomplete", but at the time OpenAI managed to generate a lot of hype about how this would lead to an unstoppable flood of disinformation if they allowed the wrong people access to this dangerous tool. Even the original gpt3 was still behind waitlists with manual approval

And as it turns out, they were correct.