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0 pointsRIMR6y ago0 comments

I think you're making a silly mistake actually giving this "too dangerous for society" line any validity.

I understand that this tech could be used for nefarious purposes, but this isn't world-ending tech. This is just hard to differentiate from human writing...

The choice to keep their "too powerful model" unreleased is more an attempt to stoke sensationalism out of journalists eager to report on "The AI too dangerous to release" than it is actually an earnest attempt at protecting society.

The dangerous rogue-AI is a Hollywood trope. We don't live in the Ghost In the Shell universe, we live in reality, and a text-generating algorithm isn't particularly dangerous when you think about it.

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anchpop6y ago· 1 in thread

> I understand that this tech could be used for nefarious purposes, but this isn't world-ending tech. This is just hard to differentiate from human writing...

When, in any OpenAI communication, have they ever implied GPT2 is world ending tech?

> We don't live in the Ghost In the Shell universe, we live in reality, and a text-generating algorithm isn't particularly dangerous when you think about it.

Are you sure it won't be used to automatically post fake news or create artificial group cohesion by bad state actors? We can already do stuff like that, but this allows you to do it faster and cheaper. Don't you think that's at least a little scary?

RIMROP6y ago

Again, I already made it clear that this has nefarious purposes.

But there is zero utility in keeping the larger dataset secret. Society is not safer as a result.

The only reason they ever framed it the way they did was to get media attention.

"This AI is so dangerous, the creators are refusing to release it to the public!" is going to get way more clicks than "This AI writes English sentences that almost appear coherent.".

If you want more funding and attention towards your project, you're going to say stuff that gets journalists' attention.

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