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Comment by K0nserv | Hacker News Reader

7+ years ago GPT2 couldn’t be released because it was deemed too dangerous[0]. It was, of course, eventually released.

0: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

> We can also imagine the application of these models for malicious purposes , including the following (or other applications we can’t yet anticipate):

  *   Generate misleading news articles

  *   Impersonate others online

  *   Automate the production of abusive or faked content to post on social media

  *   Automate the production of spam/phishing content

Seems like the prediction was pretty accurate.

Dario Amodei is one of the authors of the paper. He used the same marketing tactic with Anthropic, and got flagged by US Gov.

It’s seven years already. Crazy.

Yes, I think so too.

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