Who cares if the paper was covered in the media or not? Think tanks write policy papers for regulators, not HN. And it's the regulators that Sam was worried about. From the article:
> Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company, particularly at a time, he added, when the Federal Trade Commission was investigating OpenAI over the data used to build its technology.