In 2019, OpenAI said GPT-2 was too dangerous to release. The thread argues both sides were right (naokishibuya.github.io)
The post revisits OpenAI's Feb 2019 decision to withhold the 1.5B-parameter model, the nine-month study that found no real misuse, and the eventual full release that November.
The split is sharp: one camp says the social damage from cheap synthetic text is now astronomical, the other says it was a 'we sure hope no one takes us seriously' marketing move.
The synthesis came from a data scientist who built GPT-2 tooling: justified caution in 2019, marketing gimmick when applied to 2026's models.
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