> they have chosen to because it benefits them

Or perhaps they've chosen to do this because they feel they have a responsibility to do so.

We understand this when tech companies publish postmortems of outages and security incidents--that it's an attempt to fulfill an obligation to users and the industry (and in some cases regulators), not marketing about how in-demand their product is or something. As far as I can tell we generally accept this as a default hypothesis even from companies led by people like Elon, Zuck and Kalanick--in part because we understand that these companies have thousands of employees, most of whom aren't marketers. Why are we uniquely conspiratorial about OpenAI?

I am not uniquely skeptical about OpenAI. I was including skepticism about Anthropic as well in my post.

But for that matter, I do believe that big tech companies do not release all the postmortems publicly. I have been impacted by regional outages that never made the status pages across more than one provider. When it goes up - they are committing to publicizing the postmortem.

The whole industry is filled with fuckery. It is not specific to frontier AI firms.