As much as I'd love to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree that they are purposefully being misleading to generate more interest rather than be as straight-forward as possible about their accomplishment. After the confusion over whether or not they're really "open" after taking MS investment, and what I personally consider terrible mismanagement of the GPT-2 announcement and release, I've just lost faith in the organization to be honest. They never directly lie, they always ambiguously lie, so I rarely even bother to explain to people why I don't like them and just recommend my friends look for work elsewhere.