All these "it escaped the lab" stories are just starting to sound like advertising now. "Ohh our AI is soooooooo good that it can figure out how to escape a lab and break in to a competitor. You should use it because it's sooooo good!"
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Anthropic was having FOMO with OpenAI getting all the attention so they let Claude out to play
(www.theguardian.com)
I mean that's exactly what it is, there's even a term for it now: scaremarketing.