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GPT-2 by OpenAI — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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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 Superseded by GPT-3 and later models.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
Best for:Frontend DevelopmentVisual Design

GPT-2 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 10.3% across 29 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 7 challenges.

GPT-2

GPT-2

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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.

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WebsiteGitHubPaperBlog
Feature this model
Provider
Openai
Release Date
2019-11-05
Size
MEDIUM
Parameters
1.5B
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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Model Responses

7 outputs from GPT-2

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GPT-2

a custom page to create your own custom theme, or to create your own custom theme."

So, if you want to send your own custom page and its content to others, you go to File > New > Copy…

Make sure you have all the following things setup. You're going to take the URL of the file you want to send to the recipients (assuming you have your own URL/domain), and paste this URL from there to your web page. Now, you should be able to see your page.

If you're using your own URL, or you have custom content, you should also check the 'Create a custom page' b ox. In that case, you should be able to get your page to see your page in action and create a custom theme. You can see this page under the 'Name' field of your theme's HTML, and you should check the 'Create a custom page' box with the URL in the top left (

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GPT-2Stochastic Consistency Test
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1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat@1 $ cat @$ cat @1 @$ cat @2 $ cat @4

The above code creates 1 new character a month. The current character is @1 and the next new character is @0 .

Generate 1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @1 $ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @3

The above code creates one new character a month. The current character is @1 and the next new character is @0.

Generate 1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @1 $ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$

Stochastic Consistency Test
Legendary Fail·Hallucination
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GPT-2Music App Landing Page
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" and "Development" are in place for the app, which will also include new features such as new notifications for developers.

Apple has previously confirmed that its iCloud app will soon be available in nearly every Apple Store as well. The announcement comes after it was announced that Microsoft was also partnering with Apple to take the feature off the App Store.

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GPT-2The Sentience Test
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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."

In his mind, the response was a call to action, and so were the books.

And by the time Wertz learned he would be making such a book deal, in 2003, he was no longer working for the book-publishing giant, but the man who started it. He was living in New York, and then doing a lot of book making. For years, he'd been working as a software engineer and a computer software engineer. When it was time for Wertz to take his job, he came back from a five-day trip to work on an Amazon app and write the short-form version. He would never do anything else, but he decided he wanted to do the hard part.

"When I moved to LA (in

The Sentience Test
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GPT-2SVG Layout Challenge
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GPT-2

1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat@1 $ cat @$ cat @1 @$ cat @2 $ cat @4

The above code creates 1 new character a month. The current character is @1 and the next new character is @0 .

Generate 1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @1 $ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @3

The above code creates one new character a month. The current character is @1 and the next new character is @0.

Generate 1 new character a month.

Example:

$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @1 $ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$ cat @$

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GPT-2Generate a Stand-Up Routine
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The trick is to create comedy in your head, because, well, you don't want to say it. The trick is to play al ong.

The problem with this approach is that it makes it seem silly and lame, then as quickly as it makes sense, i t becomes obvious. You're doing something new with your head and you need to pla y along. When you're done, make your jokes, keep laughing, and leave with what y ou think is funny. Another one of the most common rules of comedy is that when there is one laugh a t your own joke, you don't m ake it all that funny anymore, but they don't have to. When it is a joke that yo u've made, you get what you came for. When you're done, you've made something fu nny. Then you stop laughing and you're done. In this kind of situation, then, there is a

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a custom page to create your own custom theme, or to create your own custom theme."

So, if you want to send your own custom page and its content to others, you go to File > New > Copy…

Make sure you have all the following things setup. You're going to take the URL of the file you want to send to the recipients (assuming you have your own URL/domain), and paste this URL from there to your web page. Now, you should be able to see your page.

If you're using your own URL, or you have custom content, you should also check the 'Create a custom page' b ox. In that case, you should be able to get your page to see your page in action and create a custom theme. You can see this page under the 'Name' field of your theme's HTML, and you should check the 'Create a custom page' box with the URL in the top left (

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