alt Hacker Newsit will not chill disclosure, it just raises the stakes of not disclosing. the larger the org the harder the cover up if they try to keep it hidden. there are people prepared to make sacrifices for truth and a common good to prevail.
bp, they disclosed themselves by setting the gulf of mexico on fire. that was hard to cover up.
the thing is, once the toothpaste is scrubbed about in the mouth there is no going back into the tube. i like to think that the men who forced challenger to launch were hounded in their sleep.
nobody is too big to fail, not openai, not anthropic. indeed perhaps they should fail, soon, before they can pass the cost of a bailout onto the taxpayer.
I don't think you realize how easy it is to simply "not notice" these things and no one checks. They proactively scanned their transcripts. They could have easily not scanned their transcripts, or scanned them in a way that would have had low recall (thus satisfying the letter of the law), or scanned them and ignored the findings.
It is extremely easy to not disclose. I think you're too angry to realize this.
We see this in aviation as well by the way. Punitive disclosure leads to no disclosure. This is how you get suicidal pilots that don't ever disclose their depression because it'd be career ending, and then as it gets worse, one day they do something horrible.