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Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)

OpenAI has opted against the public release of its GPT2 language model due to potential risks regarding the creation of deceptive or malicious content. While the research demonstrates significant progress in automated text generation, the decision reflects ongoing industry caution about the misuse of high-fidelity synthetic writing tools.

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