Is OpenAI that desperate for media coverage? 24 months from now, outrageous PR stunts like this will look embarrassing next to the demeanor of Z.AI, DeepSeek and Qwen.
OpenAI desperately wants to take the initiative in defining 'alignment' so they can villainize open models and regulate the rest of their competition. The whole reason they publicly acknowledge this is because it's one of the only pieces of evidence vindicating their extremist take on LLM development.