Or, occam’s razor - AI companies are worried about PR and are implementing safeguards, but due to the nature of this technology it’s very hard (or maybe even impossible) to make those safeguards robust.

Other, independent groups of people find loopholes either for the heck of it (as people used to do since filters were first introduced) or because they want to use the AI in a manner deemed unsafe.

Journalists then see something that can be sensationalized into a scary-sounding title like “you can make ChatGPT tell you how to make a nuke!!” or “you can make ChatGPT encourage suicide!!” and they run with it because it makes people click.

Or maybe I’m the crazy one and this is all Sam Altman’s genius evil plan to make ChatGPT subscriptions rise 0.2% per quarter. Maybe your comment and my response are also mere cogs in this marketing machine. We will never know.