Fairly certain Occam's Razor would point to "they don't have the capabilities" rather than that.

If you don’t think that China’s models have the capability to make POST requests to an HTTP endpoint, that is a very silly statement to make.

Unless what you meant by capability is the story presented that these models “escaped containment to communicate with eachother out of band” - in which case your supposition relies on already wholeheartedly believing the case that I’m arguing against. That would be like saying “Clearly heaven exists because my grandma is there.”

That is not simpler explanation. None of what happened here requires some kind of super techno magic not available to, well, anyone.

You think OpenAI framed themselves for legal vulnerability to Huggingface?

OpenAI is now part of the national security state and so is now above anything beyond performative legal vulnerability.

It astonishes me that everyone doesn't already realize this.

We've already seen that the rule of law is dead and that many people in government will do whatever they think they can get away with, and then proceed to do so without consequences. Shielding OpenAI is child's play compared to things that have already been done.

That’s an incredible strawman, and I appreciate the silliness of immediately suggesting the most complicated and ridiculous way to interpret the possibility of what I said, but no, not at all.

That could certainly be possible and I wouldn’t rule it out, but I would not take that particular route to the destination.

Which "elaborate guerrilla advertising campaigns to drive up capital funding interest" were you referring to, in regard to Chinese models not needing to set up message boards for inter-model communication?