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I remember OpenAI holding back GPT from public release in a very similar fashion: it’s too powerful, concerns over misuse, etc. Then they went ahead and released it to the public anyway, with all the potential abuses barely mitigated and now materializing exactly as predicted.

At this point, I can’t view this sort of “It’s too powerful to be public!!” statement as anything but prerelease marketing hype.

To be clear, I’m very much in favor of ethical non-release of dangerous tech.

If you’re going to do that, the way to do it is not to send out a press release. It’s to keep your dangerous discovery somewhere between low-key and confidential, and get your research community working to develop mitigations and countermeasures •before• your creation wanders into the view of investors and militaries.