GPT-4: A Viral Case of AI Misinformation
For those of you wondering, GPT-4 won’t have 100 trillion parameters
8 min readFeb 7, 2023
I’m responsible for the “GPT-4 will have 100 trillion parameters” false statement going viral on social media.
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, here are a couple of visual examples:
These two images above were shared on Twitter (together, at the time of writing, they’ve got 5 million views). Similar posts are circulating on LinkedIn, Reddit, and other sites. All slightly different versions of the same thing.
They combine an appealing visual graph of a GPT-3/GPT-4 comparison (recent ones use GPT-3 as a proxy for ChatGPT) and an accompanying hook with a high emotional charge (e.g. “this is a frightening visual for me” or “[GPT-4] will make ChatGPT…
