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>Google has no special claim to be able to responsibly use these models

Well, they do have the "special claim" of inventing the model and not owing its release to anyone.

First, that isn't a claim of any kind regarding responsible use. If a child is the first one to discover a gun in the woods, that is no kind of claim that the child will use the gun responsibly. Second, Google's invention builds off of public research that was made available to them. They just choose to keep their iterations private.

But there is a claim that not distributing guns to other children or giving them detailed instructions about how to get guns is more responsible than the reverse.

Said "public research" didn't come with a requirement to release anything you build on top of it. This would pretty much be the research equivalent of compelled speech. Luckily, not happening.

It's trained on our data, and so its release is in fact owed to us.

You are confusing this with OpenAI like everyone else in this thread.

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