This isn’t escaping in the same sense- the model was executing within the OpenAI infra. If it ported its entire architecture/weights into a public cloud to survive being turned off… that’d be pretty cool.
I wonder how these companies airgap the weights while allowing prompts to come in and outputs to come out.
Recall that the Morris Worm was designed as a harmless proof of concept, but ended up taking down 10% of the internet. Exponential growth can quickly get out of control. You would think that people would've learned that lesson from COVID.