I think it’s the primary reason why OpenAI leadership cares about InstructGPT and is willing to dedicate substantial personel and financial resources on it. I expect that when OpenAI leadership is making tradeoffs of different types of training, the primary question is commercial viability, not safety.
Similarly, if InstructGPT would hurt commercial viability, I expect it would not get deployed (I think individual researchers would likely still be able to work on it, though I think they would be unlikely to be able to hire others to work on it, or get substantial financial resources to scale it).
I think it’s the primary reason why OpenAI leadership cares about InstructGPT and is willing to dedicate substantial personel and financial resources on it. I expect that when OpenAI leadership is making tradeoffs of different types of training, the primary question is commercial viability, not safety.
Similarly, if InstructGPT would hurt commercial viability, I expect it would not get deployed (I think individual researchers would likely still be able to work on it, though I think they would be unlikely to be able to hire others to work on it, or get substantial financial resources to scale it).