Yeah it is, that's why I disclose this stuff.

The counter-incentive here is that my reputation and credibility is more valuable to me than early access to models.

This very post is an example of me taking a risk of annoying a company that I cover. I'm exposing the existence of the ChatGPT skills mechanism here (which I found out about from a tip on Twitter - it's not something I got given early access to via an NDA).

It's very possible OpenAI didn't want that story out there yet and aren't happy that it's sat at the top of Hacker News right now.