I’d recommend re-reading the original GPT2 announcement, particularly this section regarding their release policy:
This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.
This release approach is an experiment used to force the conversation around a release strategy before we actually and unambiguously need it.
This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.
This release approach is an experiment used to force the conversation around a release strategy before we actually and unambiguously need it.