"but lawbreaking and disregard for regulation is absolutely at the heart of OpenAI. "

No it is not.

What laws and regulations are they breaking?

Their agents broke out of a harness and harassed some other sites, it's not good, but it's not specifically breaking laws. Other companies are treating it as accidental, it mostly is that.

You're rhetoric here is agitating, conflating. This is my point.

The long list of laws and regulations that would have had a low-status individual jailed if caught.

If you don't believe me, try hacking some government sites and see what happens to you.

But OpenAI is a huge corporation and low-status laws don't apply.

> and harassed some other sites, it's not good, but it's not specifically breaking laws

I'm sure it would be considered a breach of the UK's Computer Misuse Act, and there are no doubt statues elsewhere that are relevant too.

Once is an accident. Twice is incompetence. Three+ is, at best, pushing your luck to see what you can get away with.

What laws and regulations? IP theft, of published media, to the scale of "all of it". If it were music and film and not text, the music & film industries would have nuked Silicon Valley by now. Which shows the relative power of popular media versus text publishing.