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I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".
Remember when the PlayStation 2 was "technically a supercomputer" and taking LSD a certain number of times made you insane? Great moments in marketing history
https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
What is the point of them trying to create this? That something like this would mostly be used to create disinformation and create chaos is easily understood before making something like this. Truly irresponsible
I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".
I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet. I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.
1. “… but if you and your big rich company were to acquihire us you'd get access…” — though as this is MS it probably isn't that!
2. That is only works as well as claimed in specific circumstances, or has significant flaws, so they don't want people looking at it too closely just yet. The wordage “in benchmarks used by Microsoft” might point to this.
3. That a competitor is getting close to releasing something similar, or has just done so, and they don't want to look like they were in second place or too far behind.
> "This page is for research demonstration purposes only. Currently, we have no plans to incorporate VALL-E 2 into a product or expand access to the public."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet. I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.
By more unusable, do you mean more dead? As in LLMs are helping make the Dead Internet Theory real?
I don't know if that will actually come true, of course - human society is pretty resilient in the face of its own self-caused adversity, but currently it does already extract a significant mental and emotional cost dealing with filtering out the "human mimics" on many platforms - especially search engines.