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OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by malfist »

serf wrote: post #73
logifail wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's really hard to sometimes break out of that loop and do manual fixes You're aware of the MIT Media Lab study[0] from last summer regarding LLM usage and eroding critical thinking skills...? [0] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task June 2025 DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872

>> it's really hard to sometimes break out of that loop and do manual fixes it's not just an erosion of skills, it can also break the whole LLM toolchain flow. Easy example: Put together some fairly complicated multi-facet program with an LLM. You'll eventually hit a bug that it needs to be coaxed into fixing. In the middle of this bug-fixing conversation go and ahead and fire an editor up and flip a true/false or ch…

Every time I change something outside the chat interface claude tells me a linter made a change.

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by subroutine »

renewiltord wrote: post #119
subroutine wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused. From what I can tell GPT-2 was released in 2019... https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2 https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/model_card.md

It was not the last version they released open source. GPT-OSS-120B was released open source after it.

Oh duh, you are absolutely right. I thought you were saying they never released GPT-2.

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by y1n0 »

fancythat wrote: post #99

As the old saying goes (I made this up), if it was worth that much, it wouldn't be released to the public. There is absolutely zero chance that something "dangerous" would be available for 20 USD / month to basically anyone in the world. To this day, I am still puzzled when some professionals don't apply the basic logic to certain bombastic events.

You mean like ghost guns?

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by selfhoster11 »

renewiltord wrote: post #35
subroutine wrote: post #23

They finally did release 2.0 under the MIT license. That was the last version (a 1.5-billion-parameter model) they would release open source. GPT3 for comparison has 175 billion parameters.

No. That’s not true. https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b Was released after.

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Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by ms_menardi »

loveparade wrote: post #44
SilverSlash wrote: post #36

Someone needs to make a compilation of all these classic OpenAI moments. Including hits like GPT-2 too dangerous, the 64x64 image model DALL-E too scary, "push the veil of ignorance back", AGI achieved internally, Q*/strawberry is able to solve math and is making OpenAI researchers panic, etc. etc. I use Codex btw, and I really love it. But some of these companies have been so overhyping the capabilities of these mod…

Are you sure they are not just refusing to solve your UI bug due to safety concerns? They may be worried you'll take over the world once your UX becomes too good.

I don't want the world, sounds like people would start bothering me all the time. I'd never get a moment to relax. But if I had the world, I'd do better with it than what we got.

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by toobulkeh »

SilverSlash wrote: post #36

Someone needs to make a compilation of all these classic OpenAI moments. Including hits like GPT-2 too dangerous, the 64x64 image model DALL-E too scary, "push the veil of ignorance back", AGI achieved internally, Q*/strawberry is able to solve math and is making OpenAI researchers panic, etc. etc. I use Codex btw, and I really love it. But some of these companies have been so overhyping the capabilities of these mod…

Do you have examples of Anthropic doing so? I’d love to see it. To me it seems they have a proclivity to being hyper-accurate.

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by make3 »

anuramat wrote: post #14
make3 wrote: post #5

the thing could barely make full grammatical sentences, it's funny to see that even then they were overclaiming the fuck out of their myself

imho it was more reasonable back then to claim "agi soon" -- back when nobody really knew how it scales

we essentially have AGI right now brother

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by make3 »

selcuka wrote: post #28
make3 wrote: post #5

the thing could barely make full grammatical sentences, it's funny to see that even then they were overclaiming the fuck out of their myself

It was a 1.5B parameter model. It was still impressive for 2019, but yeah, it was nothing to worry about.

1.5B and insanely under-trained. Size didn't mean much before the scaling laws papers came out.

Re: OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

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Post by bdangubic »

make3 wrote: post #128
anuramat wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

imho it was more reasonable back then to claim "agi soon" -- back when nobody really knew how it scales

we essentially have AGI right now brother

we got the A and G parts, just missing the I part but it’s coming :)
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