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For "harmful" and "dangerous" in these types of papers, replace "embarrassing to the relevant corporation". Then they all make much more sense.

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That's always my assumption - less about public safety, more about corporate liability.

I mean in the article about the jailbreak, I'm not questioning that the model providers would want to prevent it in the first place, or patch it so the jailbreak doesn't work.

The evidence that it worked is a blurred out screenshot with only the odd word like 'molotov' legible. Just doesn't seem necessary for TFA to hide it to me.

Ah, well, that's an important element of kayfabe. They've all agreed to keep up this charade that they're using harmful and dangerous as we actually mean them, so it looks better if you really commit to the bit!

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