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GPT-2 was called "too dangerous to release".


Is there a sense where they were right because GPT-2 directly led to the current situation where you can atleast objectively say that reasonable people are pretty worried about existential risks of AI.


By that logic, farming is too dangerous to release.


No because that reason wasn’t why they said it.


Well you can't attribute it like this. If you go like this, Are you going to blame google and ban research on LLM?


And again the boy will cry out “the wolf is here!” But this time the wolf really will be here, and no one will believe him.




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