"It wants to be free" is a ridiculous statement, considering that after full two years (GPT-3 was published in May 2020), there is no public release of anything comparable.

In May 2020, was your estimate of time to public release of anything comparable shorter or longer than two years? I bet it was shorter.

> "It wants to be free" is a ridiculous statement

"It wants to be free" is based on the standard line "code/data wants to be free". It doesn't mean this cost nothing to produce or isn't valuable.

This is an ideal use case for a torrent.

In big companies, something as simple as "host it on facebook.com/model.tar.gz" can be mountains of approval and paperwork.