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I never got why GPT-3 was so closed off, like you needed permission to use it. If it’s so good then why not just make it available?
by TedShiller 5y ago
I never got why GPT-3 was so closed off, like you needed permission to use it. If it’s so good then why not just make it available?
- krageon 5y ago> If it’s so good then why not just make it available? OpenAI is pivoting to corporate evil, and to do that properly they need proprietary assets to rent out.
- Nasrudith 5y agoBecause of vast piles of bad science fiction being taken as fact and outright hysteria.
- nomel 5y ago> Because of vast piles of bad science fiction being taken as fact None of these systems could work if only facts were used as input. Maybe some "factual" score could be presented with the data, but wow, that's a philosophical problem there.
- theshrike79 5y agoI think the reasoning was that GPT-3 could easily be used to fill the world with realistic bullshit that would take ages to debunk.
- gbear605 5y agoThe concern, nominally, is that it’s too good. They’re worried that it'll lead to a huge influx of things like spam comments and fake news articles.
- TedShiller 5y agoThat's the first time I've heard of a company being worried that their product is too good.
- MPSimmons 5y agoThis is legitimately dangerous technology. It probably(?) wouldn't pass the Turing Test, but it would fool a lot of people.
- TedShiller 5y agoI wish Microsoft would have worried that Windows was too good, and never have released it for this reason. Then we wouldn't have had to go through the whole Windows thing.
- rexreed 5y agoHow else would you be able to sell a $1 Billion exclusive license to Microsoft?
- Oras 5y agoOne of the reasons is ensuring that unsafe generated text will not make it back to the internet. OpenAI has strict requirements for the usage of GPT-3. For instance, you cannot automate posting to social media without a human in the middle.
- machiaweliczny 5y agoThey bet with Microsoft on automating programmers (or at least coders)