Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story John Thickstun

'The rogue agent story is a page out of the media campaign that OpenAI has been running since it announced GPT-2 in 2019.' 'The rogue agent story is a page out of the media campaign that OpenAI has been running since it announced GPT-2 in 2019.' Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? O n 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse. I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without access to the model there wasn't much for a researcher like me to learn about GPT-2. GPT-2 generated hype far beyond the research community: people were intrigued by this strange new technology, so powerful it might be dangerous to release.