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> they meant that to be interpreted as a statement of how good GPT-2 is

Every previous time someone says something like this, I've looked at the original blog post again just to make sure I didn't miss something.

OpenAI's own words for GPT-2 never read like a boast to me. Caution, not a boast.

News may have bigged it up, but news does that for everything.

I mean just compare it to the GPT-5 release: they're not shy or subtle when they actually want to boast.



Note that OpenAI is not the same company now compared to then. All the cautious and responsible people have left or been forced out.


Sure, yes.

I'm just frustrated that "doing it right" gets people laughed at both at the time and for several years later, right up until the general dangers they were publicly concerned about manifest, and then people complain about people not doing something to prevent the outcome that they were previously laughed at for attempting to prevent.

Those same cautious people who left one way or another, they were the ones most directly mocked for daring to consider the possibility their new thing might be risky and caution might be wise.


Well they didn't really try that hard to prevent it, clearly


Leaving a company does traditionally make it difficult to influence that company, yes.




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