[jd115]

I'm old enough to remember some number of months ago when GPT2 was described as "too dangerous to release".

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Remember when the PlayStation 2 was "technically a supercomputer" and taking LSD a certain number of times made you insane? Great moments in marketing history

[jayGlow]

funnily enough the ps3 was literally a super computer, at least if you hooked up enough of them

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...

[klowner]

Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?

[Paul-Craft]

Huh. Today, a college kid without even any underlying knowledge of the math can train their own GPT-2-level language model as a semester project.

[devmor]

I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet.

I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.

[goatlover]

By more unusable, do you mean more dead? As in LLMs are helping make the Dead Internet Theory real?

[rmorey]

“some number” would be 65. things change

[kbelder]

>things change

Often predictably.