Is there anything -- any possible scrap of evidence whatsoever -- that would convince you that this is not merely a marketing scheme?

This is becoming an idée fixe among the HN crowd. Seemingly nothing can dislodge it, no matter how alarming the incident.

GPT-6 could grab the nuclear launch codes tomorrow and there would be a top-voted comment chuckling that it's all some scheme to pump up the IPO.

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Put another way, how would you have done the write-up about one of these breakout incidents, if you were in an Anthropic/OpenAI employee's shoes, and (by hypothesis) your intent were not "marketing"? And in a way that doesn't trigger the "it's all marketing" HN top-ranking comment?

Here is one piece of evidence that would convince me: they admit they can't contain it, the they erase the weights and dismantle the company.

I would dedicate a portion of my organization to making O.S. tools that protect against and contain AI models

I always find it bizarre how rational thought goes out the window whenever AI is involved in HN. There's gotta be something in the water...