I think this release shows a fundamental cultural difference.
Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety. In discussions with my friends, if people are worried about anything, it's deepfakes, voice cloning and fake revenge porn, not some text generator saying something "offensive" that you could have googled anyway. The most common reaction to Open AI's policies is an eye roll and complaints about "those Americans." Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold. To give just one example, the concept of "cancellation" is somewhere between confusing and scary for your run-of-the-mill European. Things like the blackface issue, affirmative action or the Rowling debacle don't make "cultural sense" here, even to those who lean left. An European leftist is much closer to an American leftist of 2010 than to one of 2023.
To be entirely clear, I don't fully agree with that perspective, there are good ideas worth taking from the American way of thinking, but this is the way many people think here.
Most models released so far were American (or Chinese, but that's an entirely different can of worms). I'm not surprised that a European company gave us something like this.
Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety. In discussions with my friends, if people are worried about anything, it's deepfakes, voice cloning and fake revenge porn, not some text generator saying something "offensive" that you could have googled anyway. The most common reaction to Open AI's policies is an eye roll and complaints about "those Americans." Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold. To give just one example, the concept of "cancellation" is somewhere between confusing and scary for your run-of-the-mill European. Things like the blackface issue, affirmative action or the Rowling debacle don't make "cultural sense" here, even to those who lean left. An European leftist is much closer to an American leftist of 2010 than to one of 2023.
To be entirely clear, I don't fully agree with that perspective, there are good ideas worth taking from the American way of thinking, but this is the way many people think here.
Most models released so far were American (or Chinese, but that's an entirely different can of worms). I'm not surprised that a European company gave us something like this.