You might be waiting a while, I'm not in that set of "a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government".

The government doesn't have a Department of Vector Pelicans?

No, but Ministry of Silly Prompts is not out of question.

They have many that sometimes act like ones

I think that there are some OAI employees on Hackernews. I do believe that they should give access to ya, because after all it would allows us to generate pelicans :-D

What is the consensus on who becomes part of the said small group of trusted partners and if they weren't so opaque about it. I'd expect comparatively big names like Simon to be included within such but Alas its not reality.

I should clarify that I've had plenty of preview access in the past, but clearly this has got a little bit delicate over the past few weeks!

I also don't like writing about preview models that I'm not 100% sure are the same as the general release model, because I don't want to review something which turns out not to be the model everyone else gets to use.