Yay Anthropic. This is the first example I’m aware of of a lab sharing model access with external safety researchers to boost their research (like, not just for evals). I wish the labs did this more.
[Edit: OpenAI shared GPT-4 access with safety researchers including Rachel Freedman before release. OpenAI shared GPT-4 fine-tuning access with academic researchers including Jacob Steinhardt and Daniel Kang in 2023. Yay OpenAI. GPT-4 fine-tuning access is still not public; some widely-respected safety researchers I know recently were wishing for it, and were wishing they could disable content filters.]
I’d be surprised if this was employee-level access. I’m aware of a red-teaming program that gave early API access to specific versions of models, but not anything like employee-level.
It was a secretive program — it wasn’t advertised anywhere, and we had to sign an NDA about its existence (which we have since been released from). I got the impression that this was because OpenAI really wanted to keep the existence of GPT4 under wraps. Anyway, that means I don’t have any proof beyond my word.
Yay Anthropic. This is the first example I’m aware of of a lab sharing model access with external safety researchers to boost their research (like, not just for evals). I wish the labs did this more.
[Edit: OpenAI shared GPT-4 access with safety researchers including Rachel Freedman before release. OpenAI shared GPT-4 fine-tuning access with academic researchers including Jacob Steinhardt and Daniel Kang in 2023. Yay OpenAI. GPT-4 fine-tuning access is still not public; some widely-respected safety researchers I know recently were wishing for it, and were wishing they could disable content filters.]
OpenAI did this too, with GPT-4 pre-release. It was a small program, though — I think just 5-10 researchers.
I’d be surprised if this was employee-level access. I’m aware of a red-teaming program that gave early API access to specific versions of models, but not anything like employee-level.
It also wasn’t employee level access probably?
(But still a good step!)
Source?
It was a secretive program — it wasn’t advertised anywhere, and we had to sign an NDA about its existence (which we have since been released from). I got the impression that this was because OpenAI really wanted to keep the existence of GPT4 under wraps. Anyway, that means I don’t have any proof beyond my word.
Thanks!
To be clear, my question was like where can I learn more + what should I cite, not I don’t believe you. I’ll cite your comment.
Yay OpenAI.