Only OpenAI talked about that strongly and directly, because Scam Allmen thought that was the best way to get attention and adulation, over the objections of the most of the people who actually did the research for him. Traditionally Hacker News would’ve sided with the actual engineers over the soulless executive, but clearly that time has passed and this community has lost anything it ever cared for except for selfish libertarianism.
Everyone else of significance has been appropriately cautious until their hands were forced, by that alleged incestuous rapist who would never spare a second thought for potential or real harm.
This is extremely precedented. Google developer relations people do exactly that, all the time. Or at least they used to, all the folks I used to follow have left the company. You’ll find lots of open source projects in Google’s repositories which are just personal tools they built to scratch an itch, but are published under Google‘s name because that’s the preferred approach per their internal legal guidance.
I don’t know if this guy is telling the full story or not, I can see potential aggravating factors, but on the surface it’s a lot more reasonable than you’re letting on
Everyone else of significance has been appropriately cautious until their hands were forced, by that alleged incestuous rapist who would never spare a second thought for potential or real harm.