> this outcome is good for their business and stock price

You state this as fact--how do you know it? OpenAI isn't publicly traded. On Hiive OpenAI is marginally down in July: https://www.hiive.com/securities/openai-stock

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why_at 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Well if you're looking for some kind of statistical analysis of OpenAI's press releases vs their valuation then I don't have anything like that. I also don't have this kind of evidence that running ads during the Superbowl is good for their business, but it just seems kind of obvious that touting their product's capabilities is something that they want to do.

Conversely if both companies involved thought this would be bad for the AI industry, they would be perfectly capable of keeping it just between themselves and not putting out press releases about it.

Do you disagree that this is good PR for them? If so I'm curious why.

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kalkin 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Let's start by noting you made a factual claim that you apparently had no backing for whatsoever. I'd recommend against doing that.

> they would be perfectly capable of keeping it just between themselves and not putting out press releases about it.

In some jurisdictions there are legal requirements about disclosing cybersecurity incidents, and it's a well-established best practice even where there aren't. Beyond that, HuggingFace appears to have put out a press release about this before they knew this was a rogue OpenAI model: https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Of course, if it's all a big conspiracy, perhaps they were just not saying what they knew in order to help OpenAI's marketing later. Or it never happened at all, or whatever.

I do disagree that this is good PR, but I don't see the point in having that argument here--I just want to correct straightforward misinformation.

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why_at an hour ago | parent [-]

Respectfully, calling this misinformation is unwarranted.

The featured article is about exactly this.

>On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2

>OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse.

>People with power and money took note: in July of that year, Microsoft invested $1bn in OpenAI.

It's not a 100% gold standard RCT or whatever, but the idea that this is good PR for AI companies is backed up by recent history. What evidence do you want to see?

>HuggingFace appears to have put out a press release about this before they knew this was a rogue OpenAI model

Huggingface's blog doesn't mention OpenAI by name but it explicitly mentions that the attack was by an "autonomous AI agent" and that they defended themselves with another AI agent.

If you have some disagreement with the premise of the article maybe you could share it in a top level comment?

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		Could there, conceivably, be some third factor at play here? One that both led OpenAI to have concerns about releasing GPT-2 as well as led Microsoft to invest in OpenAI?
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		> In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series > This broke a hundred-year drought > A few days later, Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election It's not a 100% gold standard RCT or whatever...