I worry that cynicism about this:

> if not all was invented and everything was scripted in the first place in order to get desired regulations

ends up covering up what is more worrying:

> OpenAI sandbox is such a horrible hack

I am more worried that this is sloppiness with potentially harmful resources than I am worried that people are juicing the stock price.

Makes one think really. If they are doing this stuff. Why don't they have some type of reverse intrusion detection? Like automatically scanning all out going traffic and flagging malicious traffic. Should be trivial to have it go through reverse proxy and real time detection.