It's become just another commercial operation, hoarding it's secrets and profiting off them - which is fine for normal companies but of questionable morality here given it's original manifesto and long term aim of creating a sentient being.
At the very least they should have had the decency to change the name when they pivoted from Open to Closed.
There's nothing to be gained because the past isn't going to be changed by that action, so it might as well not do it.
Setting out with such noble goals is the best way to recruit talent. Do you think Sutskever, Goodfellow, etc. would have joined OpenAI if they had started off trying to be just like any other company?
Which "any other company", FAANG? Both Sutskever and Goodfellow worked at Google before OpenAI.
I'm pretty sure OpenAI pays them even fatter salaries. I worked for a nonprofit at one point. People think that nonprofit automaticall means a pay cut, but they paid me about as much as Google did before, except it was all-cash. From the fiscal standpoint nonprofit merely means that all the revenues and donations get spent on programs and salaries, not that it pays a pittance. Organizationally, there are some interesting features to it, though: no stock, no owner, limits on control, etc. But financially nonprofits can pay very well indeed.
NotOpenAI seems like a group with good intentions, then realized all the money that could be made and decided to keep it for themselves.
Currently, GTP-3 is a super weapon for nation states if they and their trolls gain access to it.
It is reasonable to give it to researchers in industry and academia to help them during this transition, because like nuclear weaponry (GTP-3-like technology may eventually have more impact on humans than nuclear weapons), the information on how to build it is out there.
Why? I get that it could be used to generate false or misleading news articles, for example, that look like they were written by humans, but there are already umpteen false or misleading news articles out there so anyone who believes whatever they read is already pwned. How does GPT-3 increase the pwnage?
Consider a twitter bot that responded to conservative twitter posts with a links and quotes from a liberal thinktank blog, whose articles were generated and saved on the fly to look like rebuttals, complete with references to seemingly already existing/back-dated articles laying the groundwork, also generated on the fly and saved.
It's a game changer.
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If this is indeed a problem, it's not a problem that's fixable by controlling the supply of propaganda (which for this discussion I am assuming to mean something like "false information that nevertheless convinces a lot of people of its truth"). It's only fixable by controlling the demand for propaganda--in other words, by reducing the number of people who can be convinced by it.
To look at it another way: trying to control the supply of propaganda means some authority has to have the power to judge that certain statements are propaganda and suppress them. How does that authority decide what is propaganda and what isn't? All you've done is transfer the propaganda problem to that authority, and that might make it, if anything, even harder to solve. Propaganda spread by Facebook posts and tweets is one thing. Propaganda spread by a recognized authority, especially under the guise of controlling propaganda spread by someone else, is quite another.
The only way out of this trap is for people to stop being convinced by anything that they cannot convince themselves of using their intelligence, common sense, and critical thinking skills.
The generated content examples in the paper are quite interesting and seem obviously useful in cheap mass generation of "pwnage".
(Also, the fact that only "violent far-right extremist ideologies and behaviors" are considered for people to be "radicalized" into points to an obvious bias on the part of the paper's authors. Which is an example of me not being convinced because I can apply my own intelligence, common sense, and critical thinking skills.)