It seems like they were correct, to me.

Yes, I love how everyone uses this argument, when what they were saying was among the lines of "GPT-2 would make it too easy to generate spam, deepfakes, content to manipulate opinion..." (not the actual quote but something like that). Turns out it was completely correct if you look at the state of the internet right now.

Obviously, they still overhype and oversell this end of humanity stuff, but this argument regurgitated ad-nauseam is not THAT great of an example when you think about it.

I was going to say.. I think people in general have this weird understanding of the word dangerous. Just because something is not movie level dramatic and/or does not generate over the top violence does not automatically make it less dangerous. In a sense, just the fact that is benign on the surface and allowed to embed in our day to day life is what makes the upcoming rug pull so painful.

And I am saying this as a person who actually likes this tech.