More or less than 100 times?

Question

In 2019, OpenAI built a text generator it declared too dangerous to fully release — fake news, impersonation, chaos. It came out nine months later anyway. Civilization held. Compared to that 'too dangerous' model, today's freely downloadable models are bigger by—

Accepted Answer

Roughly 1,000x. Every generation of AI has had a model someone called too dangerous to release, and so far every one of them is now a free download with a tutorial on YouTube. Either the danger was oversold — or the fuse is just long. (50% of Americans answer "More than 100x" — floor est.)