AIThe reception of Galactica and ChatGPT in 2022
A user argues that Meta-FAIR’s Galactica faced a backlash that pushed its team to remove the demo, contrasting that with the enthusiastic welcome ChatGPT later received.
TLDR
In a September 25, 2026 reply, a user describes Galactica as an open-source, 120-billion-parameter language-model system designed to help scientists write papers. They say harsh criticism led the small Meta-FAIR team to take down the demo website while leaving the GitHub repository and paper online. The user says ChatGPT arrived three weeks later to an enthusiastic reception and claims Galactica’s critics stayed silent.
The reception of Galactica and ChatGPT in 2022
A user argues that Meta-FAIR’s Galactica faced a backlash that pushed its team to remove the demo, contrasting that with the enthusiastic welcome ChatGPT later received.