From Open-Source To Secrecy – The Implications For Protecting AI

OpenAI, the AI research company behind the chatbot service ChatGPT, made headlines last month when they decided to withhold details of how their latest language model, GPT-4, actually works.

While the company has historically been forthcoming with such details in relation to their earlier models, the technical report that accompanied the release of GPT-4 stated that it contains "no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar". In addition to highlighting the need to maintain a competitive advantage, the report notes that the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4 were a consideration for this decision.