Seven years on, GPT-2's staged release still sparks debate
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark revisited OpenAI's staged release of GPT-2 five years on, as commentators debate whether it set a valuable norm of caution or was needless 'safetyism' given the model posed mainly spam-level risks.
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