If you're including actual announcement then why ignore this portion too?

> Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model. As an experiment in responsible disclosure, we are instead releasing a much smaller model(opens in a new window) for researchers to experiment with, as well as a technical paper(opens in a new window).

If you note, that's pretty much verbatim to what I said. So no, people don't have defective memories, some people just selectively quote stuff :P

You should actually read the paper associated with it. It's largely a journey in "why would you think that" reading.