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K0nserv • last Friday at 8:50 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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/

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SatvikBeri • yesterday at 12:16 AM

> 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.
OkWing99 • yesterday at 2:49 AM

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

jgilias • last Friday at 9:40 PM

It’s seven years already. Crazy.

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