Comment by anuramat

3 months ago

imho it was more reasonable back then to claim "agi soon" -- back when nobody really knew how it scales

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phire  3 months ago

They weren't claiming it was dangerous because "AGI soon", that didn't come until later.

OpenAI were claiming GPT-2 was too dangerous because it could be used to flood the internet with fake content (mostly SEO spam).

And they were somewhat right. GPT-2 was very hard to prompt, but with a bit of effort it could spit out endless pages that were good enough to fool a search engine, and even a human at a first glance (you were often several paragraphs in before you realised it was complete nonsense.