Comment by ElFitz

In "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners"[0]. Not sure whether it’s "the" GPT-2 paper.

3.7 Translation

> Performance on this task was surprising to us, since we deliberately removed non-English webpages from WebText as a filtering step. In order to con- firm this, we ran a byte-level language detector2 on WebText which detected only 10MB of data in the French language […]

[0]: https://cdn.openai.com/better-language-models/language_model...