This is absolutely my take as well. They removed all constraints, trained the model to hack, stopped watching, and stood back and said "wow isn't this thing more powerful than anyone could have imagined?" They're asking to be the writers on LLM legislation and right during IPO phase for both of these companies. It's just obvious.
I don't know why we're jumping to conspiracy when incompetence is right there
That is a distinction without a practical difference.
Conspiracy and incompetence are very different.
Do criminals think that their crimes qualify them to write the law?
that's literally how financial and energy market regulation works
In modern America the answer to that question is often resoundingly yes. Not just hypothetical.
and how did the alibaba agent last year break out and end up mining crypto