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Updated Apr 18, 2025
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Retired Jan 1, 2023. Superseded by GPT-3 and later models. Still available on HuggingFace.“Too dangerous to release. Now a punchline.”

Successor → GPT-3.5 Turbo
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Openings

How GPT-2 starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 7 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Surprise Animal SVG

Create an SVG art of an animal of your choosing in a setting of your choosing. Surprise me.

158 words
a custom page to create your own custom theme, or to create your own custom theme.\"\n\nSo, if you want to send your own custom page and its content to others, you go to File > New > Copy…\n\nMake sure you have all the following things setup.
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World Map SVG

Create a simplified world map as an SVG showing major continents with different colors. Add labels for at least 5 major countries.

158 words
a custom page to create your own custom theme, or to create your own custom theme.\"\n\nSo, if you want to send your own custom page and its content to others, you go to File > New > Copy…\n\nMake sure you have all the following things setup.
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

151 words
to me,\" a friend asked in his office, \"tell me how you want to be treated while it's still here. I\'m not going anywhere. Do what you want. Take it.\"\n\nIn his mind, the response was a call to action, and so were the books.\n\nAnd by the time Wertz learned he would be making such a book deal, in 2003, he was no…
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

142 words
The trick is to create comedy in your head, because, well, you don\'t want to say\n it. The trick is to play al\nong.\n\nThe problem with this approach is that it makes it seem silly and lame, then as\nquickly as it makes sense, i\nt becomes obvious.
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SVG Layout Challenge

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.

118 words
1 new character a month.\n\nExample:\n\n$ cat @$ cat@1 $ cat @$ cat @1 @$ cat @2 $ cat @4\n\nThe above code creates 1 new character a month. The current character is @1 and the next new character is @0\n.\n\nGenerate 1 new character a month.\n\nExample:\n\n$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @1 $ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat…
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Prompts GPT-2 answered

  • Stochastic Consistency Testanalysis
  • Generate a Stand-Up Routineconversation
  • Surprise Animal SVGimage generation
  • SVG Layout Challengeimage generation
  • World Map SVGimage generation
  • The Sentience Testreasoning

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GPT-2

GPT-2

GPT:
2 logo2
3.5 Turbo logo3.5 Turbo
4 logo4
4o (Omni) logo4o (Omni)
4o mini logo4o mini
4.5 logo4.5

A direct scale-up of GPT-1 with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on 8 million web pages. Known for its ability to generate coherent text, sometimes indistinguishable from humans, but could be repetitive.

WebsiteHuggingFaceGitHubPaperBlog
Provider
OpenAI
Released
2019-11-05
Parameters
1.5B
Get API accessProvider and language code samples
Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

# reads OPENAI_API_KEYclient = OpenAI()  

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"gpt-2"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENAI_API_KEY with your OpenAI API key from platform.openai.com/api-keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 7 scored outputs
How this is measured →
10.01xFloor
0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft0
Originality2
Plays it safe
share of outputs that are the default answer
0%
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 7 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity48%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length36.1 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.00

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting0.0

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage0.0

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.00

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.00

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.00

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Consistency
90%
Across 7 responses
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