GPT-2 hindsight looks easy, but the safety tradeoff was far less clear at the time
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-07-21
The thread argues that holding back GPT-2 now looks obvious in hindsight, but says the people involved were working with incomplete information at the time.
The core point in the reply is that it is a mistake to look backward and conclude a model was safe, because that misses the uncertainty decision-makers faced when the release choice was made.
In other words, the discussion is about how AI safety judgments should account for uncertainty rather than retrospectively rewriting the risk assessment.
Related event: Debate Over GPT-OSS Open Source and Safety Strategies(10 posts)→
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