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Look, they're probably getting millions of requests. At least some of those people who are respected scientists in NLP/AI but cannot get access were almost certainly just over-looked. It was really seeing that even Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis cannot get access that pushed me over the line on this one from "be gracious, moderating access to a finite resource is hard" to "wow this is sketchy".

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> Look, they're probably getting millions of requests. At least some of those people who are respected scientists in NLP/AI but cannot get access were almost certainly just over-looked. It was really seeing that even Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis cannot get access that pushed me over the line on this one from "be gracious, moderating access to a finite resource is hard" to "wow this is sketchy".

You seem to have changed your stance 180° in the middle of your comment.

Maybe the person you were replying to is actually a GPT-3 comment bot and we're already screwed.

He didn't, he is saying that the previous comment anecdotal evidence could be easily explained by the amount of interest into the project by many people, which can't all get access to it, but then show how this same explanation shouldn't apply to Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis.

I had a belief (assume best intentions unless there's evidence otherwise). And then, later, I modified that belief given some new compelling evidence.

Are you saying that you modified your belief while writing your comment, or that you rewrote your posted comment after changing your mind?

Yeah, me too. I was really starting to be convinced of GPT-3's potential but this is a major red flag for me. Are they researchers or businessmen?

This is the first time I've heard this. This kind of thing definitely needs more news coverage.

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