"New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators" (2019 Guardian headline)

I'm sure some here read this at the time and remember, but I recently found this hilarious Guardian article from 2019 through Wikipedia:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

Some choice quotes:

"OpenAI ... says its new AI model, called GPT2 is so good and the risk of malicious use so high that it is breaking from its normal practice of releasing the full research to the public in order to allow more time to discuss the ramifications of the technological breakthrough."

"One is its size, says Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s research director. ... It was trained on a dataset containing about 10m articles, selected by trawling the social news site Reddit for links with more than three votes. The vast collection of text weighed in at 40 GB, enough to store about 35,000 copies of Moby Dick."

Some people never change!