Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun

OpenAI announced GPT-2 (a language model, or AI trained to predict and generate text) in 2019 but refused to release it publicly, claiming safety risks were too high. The author argues this announcement was primarily a marketing strategy to emphasize AI's power to investors rather than a genuine safety precaution, since the risks were likely overstated and the announcement prevented researchers from actually studying the model.