The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

In the past few days Hugging Face announced a security incident, which transpired to be a "runaway" agent from OpenAI. This is likely the first known autonomous offensive agent working like this, and certainly the first known one where an agent has done this inadvertently. Just marketing? Reading the commentary on this, it seems the majority of people think this is a marketing stunt. While certainly the frontier labs have endless examples of claiming things are not safe, it's quite a dangerous position for technologists to take if it is not a marketing stunt. I really struggle to see how this could be a marketing stunt. Huggingface released the blog on the 16th of July, 5 days before OpenAI released their announcement. Furthermore, Huggingface didn't name OpenAI then. It seems like a genuine security incident report. Equally, I'm not sure what OpenAI has to gain from this. Perhaps again it's some incredible campaign to prove open weights models are unsafe (in which case, why did…