the most obvious explanation for this, that requires the least competence https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor is that sama concluded that AGI cannot be achieved soon, so it's no longer a concern.
Of course, there are still true believers in these companies. They were true believers years and decades ago. But everyone who was suddenly introduced to the concept is no longer interested as the frictions of real world progress become apparent.
It's like taking a star NFL/NBA team and sending them to play a season of exhibition games in a foreign market instead of continuing to compete in the peak league of their sport.
Those will happen whether or not you have a safety team. The best way to protect against these is to widely distribute deep fakes of famous people so everyone is aware that faking things is possible.
And there are already open source LLMs that can be trained to scam a significant number of people. OpenAI can't do anything about it.
The only remedy is social media warning people.
But that would have basically meant the company was wrapped up and the model was given away or sent to a working group to study in private or something.
Which would not be compatible with making money.
This is also why they did not demonstrate or even mention for one second the text-to-image capabilities of the latest model during the demo. Because it makes it too obvious that the model is truly general purpose and capable.
This is also why Altman made a big deal about it being free (to some degree) and explains the recent "feeling the AGI" photo on X/Twitter.
It also goes into the Morgan Chu lawsuit that is still going forward as far as I know. And you guys will see in the movie that comes out in a couple of years that my explanation was right.
Also, don't be surprised if they get Gal Gadot to play Murati.