You know how a lot of us on HN talk about how security is just a latent concern for companies, but luckily there aren't enough hackers to take advantage of the massive number of bugs in every bit of code ever written? Well, a future powerful coding AI running on second-hand Etherium mining rigs in some extremist's basement in Chicago can probably do a lot more damage than a handful of state sponsored hackers in Russian and North Korea!
Not sure if I'd say there's a conspiracy per se, but I do think generative AI players are going to be careful about the optics of the technology and how it works. Anecdotally from speaking to non-technical family members there's very little understanding for how the technology actually works, and it seems there's not a great deal of effort to emphasize the importance of training data, or the intellectual property considerations in these companies marketing materials.
Negative marketing is good marketing. Look at all of us debating this scale theft promoting the brand of this non product.
1. What about Elon Musk and hundreds of other AI investors? It's in their interest to overhype AI, while temporarily slowing down competition by spreading singularity fears.
2. OpenAI released the GPT4 report where they claim better performance of their model than it's in reality [1].