> I keep seeing this take, but it’s more likely that they just underestimated their models’ capabilities and/or overestimated their own safeguards.

This is all from around the same time as the HuggingFace incident and is being trickle-fed into the media, making it feel like a back-to-back event.

If it was a new incident, after all of that drama, I would say yeah, this very well may be intentional. But it looks more like it was when OpenAI didn't have the necessary security measures in place, the reach was more extensive than we were being told, and now it's biting them as more information continues to leak.

They need to be transparent about how they're going to prevent this from happening again in the future, with technical details of the systems they've put in place.

It doesn't help suspicion about this being intentional, though, when you have OpenAI employees (Marcus Williams) making embarrassing posts on X about how there's a 70% chance humans will be extinct in the next two years (post has been deleted as of today by the way, interestingly).

All the people who come out and do this are just obvious clout chasers who have an attention fetish. They see all the attention Jacob has been getting and want a piece of that pie. It's incredibly disingenous and cringe, but it's also doing incredible and irreparable damage to society. OpenAI would be wise to introduce some social media policies.