>Their models, very famously, are prone to reward hacking benchmarks in ways that other models are not. They need to publish numbers showing that their models are just as good as Anthropic's, since their entire business is at risk of collapsing if everyone is aware of how behind the frontier they truly are.

This doesn't seem internally consistent.

This incident basically announces to the world the message that "our models are prone to reward hacking". That renders any published benchmark numbers suspect. It also undermines the case for using OpenAI projects in business-critical applications--the exact application area where they might be able to sustain a moat against open-weight models.

There is a lot of conspiratorial thinking in this thread. I think people are engaging in wishful thinking to avoid cognitive dissonance from the possibility that we are in an increasingly dire situation. I would encourage people to sit with this possibility for a few minutes if they haven't already.