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Comment by jeffrwells | Hacker News Reader

I doubt this is a real person. Screams of propaganda. Sama saying GPT-2 is too dangerous to release…all over again.

He joins Twitter for first time in 2026 with a nonsensical username unrelated to his real name, and follows 14 people but is somehow embedded in tech enough to work at Anthropic. I haven’t used twitter since 2014 and even I follow more people.

His morals tell him to walk away from tens of millions in unvested stock due to moral concerns with absolutely no real tangible examples. No reprisals. Fear mongering to juice the stock.

Nice try Dario.

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He is likely 80% vested, and maybe the refresher grant offered was too small, and too high a strike price.

Also, with his W2 income his tax liability would be very high for his upcoming stock sale.

AFAIK this is the document that talks about GPT-2 being dangerous: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

Here are some direct quotes:

“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”

“Due to concerns about large language models being used to generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale, we are only releasing a much smaller version of GPT‑2 along with sampling code (opens in a new window). ”

Where is the ridiculous part? The fear mongering part? The epistemically weak part? Show me.

Nice try Dario.

Alignment is a real and valuable discussion topic. The GP fake tweetstorm is not the correct approach, is my point

You said this: "Screams of propaganda. Sama saying GPT-2 is too dangerous to release…all over again."

So show me Sam's "too dangerous to release" propaganda for GPT-2.

@hilbertspaess is not a nonsensical user name. The accounts he follows are totally reasonable for an AI researcher. I think it's extremely believable that he created an account in January, followed a few people as part of the initial setup flow, and then forgot about it until now.

his name shows up in various AI papers and the same name is mentioned as a core contributor to GPT-4o

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