OpenAI announces GPT-2 (1.5B), withholds full model over misuse concerns
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Announced GPT-2 (1.5B) and decided not to release the full model because of concerns about misuse
Why it matters
Suggested that natural-language instructions can serve as task specifications, and opened the discourse on the risks of releasing models
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