As someone who works in marketing, this is one of the cheapest tricks to sell something: "Our product is so good that it is dangerous and we cannot release it to the world". This translates to "Give us a lot of money for limited, exclusive access, sign this NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) so no one finds out it's not that good until we make enough revenue and can claim we made a less dangerous version for all, but the better version with more risks is established as high-price product." ;)

@jwildeboer wasn't only like 6 months ago that #OpenAI pulled a similar stunt with one of its project leaders "quitting in protest" in the name of Pandora because he was so terrified their technology was on the verge of achieving AGI sentience?

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@sysop408 Yes. On the top 10 list of shady marketing tactics "drama sells" comes right after "sex sells", I'd say. On position 3 I'd put "artificial scarcity".
@jwildeboer you would think that if this tech is that blisteringly smart, the first thing it would do is figure out how to pay for its own existence. Like my cute little chatbot, you're not gonna conquer the world until you can afford to move out of your dad's basement into your own flat.