---
title: "OpenAI Just Released the AI It Said Was Too Dangerous to Share"
description: "OpenAI has published the full version of GPT-2, the text generating artificial intellegence they said was too dangerous to share."
date: "2019-11-07"
modified: "2019-11-15"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-released-ai-dangerous-share"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "OpenAI"
tags:
  - "gpt-2"
  - "OpenAI"
  - "text generation"
  - "the digest"
---

# OpenAI Just Released the AI It Said Was Too Dangerous to Share

![Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has released the full version of GPT-2, an algorithm capable of writing coherent paragraphs of text.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/openai-text-generating-ai-too-dangerous.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Here You Go

In February, artificial intelligence research startup [OpenAI announced](<https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/>) the creation of GPT-2, an algorithm capable of writing impressively coherent paragraphs of text.

But rather than release the AI in its entirety, the team shared only a [smaller model](<https://futurism.com/amazing-new-ai-churns-out-coherent-paragraphs-of-text>) out of fear that people would use the more robust tool maliciously — to produce fake news articles or spam, for example.

But on Tuesday, OpenAI published a [blog post](<https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/>) announcing its decision to [release the algorithm](<https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953040/openai-text-generation-ai-gpt-2-full-model-release-1-5b-parameters>) in full as it has "seen no strong evidence of misuse so far."

## Still Not Perfect

According to OpenAI's post, the company did see some "discussion" regarding the potential use of GPT-2 for spam and phishing, but it never actually saw evidence of anyone misusing the released versions of the algorithm.

The problem might be that, while GPT-2 is one of — if not the — best text-generating AIs in existence, it still can't produce content that's indistinguishable from text written by a human. And OpenAI warns it's *those* algorithms we'll have to watch out for.

"We think synthetic text generators have a higher chance of being misused if their outputs become more reliable and coherent," the startup wrote.

**READ MORE:** [OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share](<https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953040/openai-text-generation-ai-gpt-2-full-model-release-1-5b-parameters>) \[*The Verge*\]

**More on OpenAI:** *[Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s "Dangerous" Fake News AI](<https://futurism.com/openai-dangerous-text-generator>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)