We've just had the massive fine against 3M for knowing and hiding the risks of PFAS, and the top comments here were "increase the fines! Lock up the bosses!"
Now we have a company going "we had to put a lot of effort into preventing this model from cheerfully outputting Al Quaida propaganda, explicit rape threats, and detailed instructions for an amateur to make deadly chemicals using only home supplies", and despite that effort they still had legal trouble in Italy because the output was unsuitable for minors (as well as the GDPR issues that were the primary headline at the time).
And a lot of researchers with no financial incentives saying "yup, there's danger in these AI".
The reaction here?
Disbelief OpenAI might be saying what they mean, and meaning what they say.
And people parroting "moat!" as if none of the other FAANGs could trivially cross any regulatory barriers that emerge.
It's like the entire topic of AI has been politicised harder than "is nuclear power green?"