It wouldn't be a difficult situation if these guys were ethical shops from the get-go, but they aren't, they're trying to staple minimally required ethics on afterwards, and it shows.
This is a wild and difficult to understand technology, even for the people building it. And their safeguards are constantly evolving.
I think you’re attributing to malice what should be attributed to people commercializing a novel technology that is, frankly, being exploited by users.
But I don't think that's quite the slam-dunk defense that they're looking for.
If OpenAI, the market leader with the field’s top talent lured by eye watering pay packages, isn’t competent, then no one really is.