alt Hacker NewsRespectfully, calling this misinformation is unwarranted.
The featured article is about exactly this.
>On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2
>OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse.
>People with power and money took note: in July of that year, Microsoft invested $1bn in OpenAI.
It's not a 100% gold standard RCT or whatever, but the idea that this is good PR for AI companies is backed up by recent history. What evidence do you want to see?
>HuggingFace appears to have put out a press release about this before they knew this was a rogue OpenAI model
Huggingface's blog doesn't mention OpenAI by name but it explicitly mentions that the attack was by an "autonomous AI agent" and that they defended themselves with another AI agent.
If you have some disagreement with the premise of the article maybe you could share it in a top level comment?
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> In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series
> This broke a hundred-year drought
> A few days later, Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election
It's not a 100% gold standard RCT or whatever...
Could there, conceivably, be some third factor at play here? One that both led OpenAI to have concerns about releasing GPT-2 as well as led Microsoft to invest in OpenAI?