I think it's immoral to withhold LLMs for “security reasons.” All LLMs are all trained on forum posts from real users, source code from free software, and books written by authors. All of these people should therefore also have access to them. Ideally, the models should all be open weight. But making the model accessible only to certain groups of people is even worse than if it were at least available for purchase as a service for everyone.
GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
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Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#122Feels like a hundred years ago.
What's next, a virus from China? Such a fuss for nothing.
The death toll of especially the early variants was huge, and it created the largest spike in disability(vis fatigue etc) and cardiovascular disease in recent history.
It WSS definitely not nothing.
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#123Back in 2019, it was more fair to have caution around the larger GPT-2 models since robust text generation (by 2019 standards) was a complete unknown. For something like Mythos in 2026, where now the social implications of better LLMs are more understood, it's more fair to call it (EDIT: specifically, the declaration of its danger) a marketing gimmick.
This is a natural follow up question -- what kind of an escalation or message should frontier labs/companies publish to be seen as genuine and not marketing gimmick?
I'd say it's almost impossible at that point. Specifically, Altman said so many lies in the past that people stopped believing anything he says.
I think the core of this distrust is the fact that these companies positioned themselves against humanity from the start by saying people will lose most jobs etc. Not only it didn't happen, but many people feel several aspects of their lives got worse because of LLMs, in spite of obvious advantages. So the distrust and reluctance are real.
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
These chicken littles have lied far too many times in far too extreme ways in their desperate attempts to obtain a monopoly by regulation. The remaining 'worthwhile message' would be that they have deleted their models and are dissolving the company, because they believe the risk was too great and was worth losing the revenue and risk being civically prosecuted by their investors, and will take the chance that they'l…
Such as? Yes, yes, we know OpenAI isn’t as open as you want. What else? What are all these egregious lies that the frontier labs have told you?
Well, you can start with this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-opena...
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this a gimmick? It changes my whole profession on a level i couldn't even imagine how we would 'solve' software engineering.
> It changes my whole profession on a level i couldn't even imagine I assure, it doesn't.
I'm happy to have a discussion with you if you bring any argument.
Before GPT what would have been your choise of architecture, setup, alogorithm if someone comes to you and says "write a tool/system which can generate code" "what do you mean generate code? How do i control it?" "by writing what you want in natural language" "puh 50 years of development, 100 billion, top tier team of linguists and software engineers perhaps?"
Ask StackOverflow if they think it didn't change anything for them.
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
For starters it makes you able to bypass having to go on Reddit to find incomplete trace of solution to some niche problem and acts as a sophisticated (but sometimes wrong) search engine. This already is worth every penny and improved my mental health immensely.
Fortunately you still get the reddit experience with AI. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hxa3kj/ai_reached...
I am not clicking that link. I have blocked all reddit domains in my router, using AI to retrieve answers from Reddit.
You can copy paste it in reply if you want
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#127They released it, and look what happened. It WAS too dangerous.
Thank you, been saying that everywhere this "Gotcha" argument comes up, the internet DID become a cesspool of spam and fake content. That's literally what they were scared about.
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such as? Yes, yes, we know OpenAI isn’t as open as you want. What else? What are all these egregious lies that the frontier labs have told you?
Well, you can start with this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-opena...
So the people who tried to kick him out of the company now have a bunch of vague statements like there being "a pattern of behavior related to his honesty and candor". No other details. What a crushing indictment.
Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It changes my whole profession on a level i couldn't even imagine I assure, it doesn't.
It already has! It’s mind-boggling that anyone could deny this in mid-2026. Virtually every software engineer I know is no longer writing the majority of their code. Many are not writing any code, myself included. And I’m a staff engineer with 20 yoe, formerly at big tech, and now building a (profitable) SaaS of my own. The way I work is wildly different from a year ago. And no one is going back.
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Re: GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's next, a virus from China? Such a fuss for nothing.
The death toll of especially the early variants was huge, and it created the largest spike in disability(vis fatigue etc) and cardiovascular disease in recent history. It WSS definitely not nothing.
Sorry, I was just joking. Remember, it was 2019, you know, a hundred years ago, when they talked about a "mysterious virus from China. I remember the times of the swine flu, around 2009, then reading the news and thinking "meh, it will probably be something like that". Big mistake.