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If by "accidental" you mean "humans deliberately trained the AI to do that", then ok.

IMO, this was a PR stunt to goad the Feds into regulating AI to shore up OpenAI's moat against open source models.

Given Anthropic lost two weeks of peak Fable 5 sales to a US government restriction (and by the time they could sell it again OpenAI's GPT-5.6 had taken some wind out of its sails) I would hope that the big AI labs have learned that goading the Feds can backfire spectacularly.

You’re viewing it from a freedom not a profit perspective. If a license to use AI is required, that creates artificial scarcity. The price goes up. If gov declares Qwen et.al apostate, lack of competition increases prices.

And Anthropic’s delayed rollout was a direct response to them trying to impose extra-legislative rules on The Pentagon. I kinda doubt OpenAI has such ‘scruples’.

I think OpenAI are smart enough to have looked at the Fable situation and decided that, given the unpredictable nature of the current administration, stunts like deliberately hacking another company and pretending that it was an autonomous agents gone wrong are not worth the risk.

And yet, open source models saved the day.

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