Alec Radford and the OpenAI team trained GPT-2, a 1.5-billion-parameter Transformer language model scaled on WebText (a dataset of 45 gigabytes of high-quality internet text scraping). In a historic corporate move, OpenAI initially refused to release the full model code, citing intense concerns over the automated generation of hyper-realistic fake news and synthetic text manipulation, introducing the concept of “staged release” to AI safety ethics.
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