OpenAI Halts New Model over Safety Worries (wsj.com)

"our ~GPT-2~ ~o1~ GPT-6.0123 is so powerful, we're afraid of selling it! it's FIVE PERCENT more dangerous that our previous product too dangerous to release, the one we released two months ago! it's just too good! we will only sell it to very important VIPs, or else The Terminator happens!"

this chutzpah induces physical nausea at this point.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886416

Back in 1999, Apple ran ads that said "Our PowerPCs are so powerful, the government has classified them as munitions!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7EhYy-2RE

It the same marketing gimmick.