Remember 2019? OpenAI withheld GPT-2 as 'too dangerous to release'
timigod · x · 2026-09-14
Reposting a 2019 Guardian article with 'how have we forgotten?': OpenAI then declined to release GPT-2's full research, calling the text generator's misuse risk too high — dubbed 'deepfakes for text'. The model was 12x bigger with a 15x broader dataset than prior SOTA, and Dario Amodei was OpenAI's research director. A pointed contrast with today's far looser release practices.
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