> ...Hugging Face incident, OpenAI let a swarm of agents out by mistake...

This still seems charitable, and I wonder if the author even knows the full story and would be allowed to tell all of it.

It seems hard to imagine OpenAI being this incompetent. My working assumption is that they very much want agents to be able to do this kind of thing; them doing it is part of training, and they exploit it to feed the investment hype too.

If not fully intentional it's at the very least negligent. They just don't seem to care. In this very basic sense, OpenAI is the criminal you should be concerned about.

I don't understand why you'd think they're a "semi ethical company."