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Not really. It’s a lot better than the anarchy of releasing it and having a bunch of bad people with money use it to break software that everyone’s lives depend on. Many technologies should be gate kept because they’re dangerous. Sometimes that’s permanent, like a nuclear weapon. Sometimes that’s temporary, like a new LLM that’s good at finding exploits. It can be released to the wider public once its potential for damage has been mitigated.