Claim · 2019-08 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Solaiman and co-authors' OpenAI report of August 2019 states that OpenAI released GPT-2 in stages, withholding the larger models at first because of concerns about misuse such as fake news, impersonation and automated abusive content.

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What it connects

Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models → bears on → Open models reduce risk

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Modelsbears on ↓Open models reduce risk

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2019-08 · publication Records dated 2019 →
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: An argument that open release increases overall risk; the report describes a staged release made on misuse concerns.

Scope and limitsA developer's report on its own release decision; the misuse it names is below catastrophic scale.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models

OpenAI Report; arXiv:1908.09203 · 2019-08

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Source excerpt

“withholding larger models due to concerns about the potential for misuse, such as generating fake news content, impersonating others in email, or automating abusive social media content production”

Location in source Overview, PDF p. 3

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Irene Solaiman; Miles Brundage; Jack Clark; Amanda Askell; and others
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 78be7ece9e1b3e8f4fc7e96066b674b2d044fc1743d4416d7409c01f76796b85). arXiv v1 PDF (OpenAI report dated August 2019).
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Irene Solaiman, Miles Brundage, Jack Clark, Amanda Askell, and others, “Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models”, 2019-08.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (28 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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