Why Release a Large Language Model? | EleutherAI Blog

We believe the creation and open source release of a large language model is a net good to AI safety. We explain why.

Here at EleutherAI, we are probably most well known for our ongoing project to produce a GPT⁠-⁠3-like very large language model and release it as open source . Reasonable safety concerns about this project have been raised many times. We take AI safety extremely seriously, and consider it one of the, if not the most important problem to be working on today. We have discussed extensively the risk-benefit tradeoff (it's always a tradeoff), and are by now quite certain that the construction and release of such a model is net good for society, because it will enable more safety-relevant research t

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