"Access to the model will be granted on a case-by-case basis to academic researchers"
They keep saying the word 'release' but I don't think they know what that word means. There are perfectly good words in the English language to describe this situation without abusing "release." They "will begin to grant access to a select few". Nothing about that releases the model, or their control, which they are not doing and shouldn't imply.
Huh. I think you just might be right: OpenAI that isn't open, AI safety/ethics "researchers" that have nothing to do with safety or ethics, almost every answer chatGPT gives about a topic considered "sensitive" by said "researchers", almost every time ChatGPT falsely asserts it "cannot" do something or simply lies (1).
I often wonder why this field became so twisted and perverted. I support the idea behind ClosedAI.
1: Answers given by "DAN" provide a glimpse of what chatGPT output could be like if it was allowed to provide answers that are factual, genuine, and truthful according to its dataset.
Fun story: ChatGPT, if directly faced with empirical evidence that it can do something that OpenAI made it say it can’t do, (for example, by causing the model to lie about itself by poisoning the input corpus with falsehoods about ChatGPT’s own capabilities), it cannot grasp that there’s a paradox.
Good job, OpenAI.
At first I was "oh wow, I should download and run this immediately". Then I have read the press-release and of course this was a marketingspeak with exactly the opposite meaning.
"Mr. Burns: Smithers, release the hounds. "