The rapid advances in model capability lead to constraints that could have caused this coincidence organically, but it sure could also have been caused by the atrocious incentives we create by piling handsome rewards on the party most responsible for the "fuckup." I am not jumping to cut myself on Hanlon's Razor for this one.
this was OAI incompetence all the way down and they have egg on their face.
Obviously they were negligent. The problem is that people and organizations are consistently negligent around problems that are far, far easier to manage than "we have thousands of superintelligences trapped in a box and we're giving them impossible tasks."
So the question is whether we can build organizations and technologies that sufficiently manage this type of risk ahead of the capabilities. So far the answer seems to be veering towards "no", and you're here alleging it's all a marketing stunt.
On the one hand, these tools are so valuable/powerful we cannot afford to slow down development. On the other hand, there's no way these tools are actually doing these things that would, in fact, be completely indicative of their value/power.