It wasn't a magical threshold until today. Now it surely is a magic threshold, set by the US government.
replyDisappointingly, it still works.
replyThey used this type of language with GPT-2. Le sigh, yawn.
To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem.
replyYes, some of it looks silly now, though it's always easy to criticize with hindsight: the models could do unexpectedly impressive things and we didn't fully know the limit yet, it was a black box.
Remember you're critcising the org that actually made it public to people earlier than any other: the uncertainty was a temporary caution. The "open" in OpenAI was because they made it available, unlike Google at the time.
> To be fair, they were proven right about automated spam, phishing and disinformation being a problem
replyWhen the company that enables this, makes the predictions in the first place, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.