What I learned using GPT-2 to write a novel

On February the 14th 2019 Open AI posted their peculiar love-letter to the AI community. They shared a 21-minute long blog talking about their new language model named GPT-2, examples of the text it had generated, and a slight warning. The blog ends with a series of possible policy implications and a release strategy. While we have grown accustomed to OpenAI sharing their full code bases alongside announcements, OpenAI is committed to making AI safe. On this occasion, releasing the full code was deemed unsafe, citing concerns around impersonation, misleading news, fake content, and spam/phishing attacks.