Redditor claims OpenAI's government 'hack' demos are marketing, not real security findings
Maleficent_Disk9583 · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit user argues it's suspicious that OpenAI and peers only publicize 'hacks' of government agencies while never targeting small private companies, which would be easier to breach but would expose them to lawsuits. He concludes these hack stories are marketing—deliberately weak sandboxes and unsupervised runs designed to get open source banned and competitors strangled by regulation, calling it 'cartel behaviour.' The claim is speculative with no evidence, but reflects a vein of community skepticism about how AI safety incidents are packaged.
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