Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models

Understand

Large language models have a range of beneficial uses: they can assist in prose, poetry, and programming; analyze dataset biases; and more.

• However, their flexibility and generative capabilities also raise misuse concerns.
• This report discusses OpenAI's work related to the release of its GPT-2 language model.
• It discusses staged release, which allows time between model releases to conduct risk and benefit analyses as model sizes increased.