Last week, OpenAI released GPT-2, a conversational AI system that quickly became controversial. Without domain-specific data, GPT-2 achieves state-of-the-art performance in seven of eight natural language understanding benchmarks for things like reading comprehension and answering questions. A paper and some code were released when the unsupervised model, trained on 40GB of internet text, went public, but the entirety of the model wasn't released due to concerns by its creators about "malicious applications of the technology," alluding to things such as automated generation of fake news. As a result, the wider community cannot fully verify or replicate the results. Some, including Keras deep learning library founder François Chollet, called the OpenAI GPT-2 release (or lack thereof) an irresponsible, fear mongering PR tactic and publicity stunt.