The older models don’t have the same guardrails as the newer “chat” counterparts.
But what Sam Altman seemed to be mostly concerned about wasn’t related to this at all. He is worried about SMI, or Super Machine Intelligence (think “singularity” here). He wasn’t scared of the current generation models outputting bad words.
I see this as the common vibe with tech CEO’s and lawmakers. They are worried about “technology outstripping X”, where X is “regulation”, or “people’s expectation”, or whatever. It’s like we are all cavemen looking into the mirror for the first time, and shocked such technology exists. Maybe time and education will cure this. But the tech keeps going, so it’s a FAST moving target, and an interesting one at that!
But the speed of progress also poses greater risk to society. I don’t think there is a clear definition of SMI, but there are no public super-intelligent models out now, but they could be coming soon (next few years, or never).
Anyways, maybe you can allude to what you saw it output, and thought should have been flagged by Moderation.