From their blog post: >These samples have substantial policy implications: large language models are becoming increasingly easy to steer towards scalable, cust

From their blog post: >These samples have substantial policy implications: large language models are becoming increasingly easy to steer towards scalable, customized, coherent text generation, which in turn could be used in a number of beneficial as well as malicious ways. We’ll discuss these implications below in more detail, and outline a publication experiment we are taking in light of such considerations. >a publication experiment we are taking in light of such considerations. So I think you're correct, they aren't really too scared about this one, but they realize they might be soon. Seeing how this turns out (how quickly its replicated, how quickly someone makes a wrapper for it that you can download and run yourself in minutes) will inform for more serious situations in the future.