alt Hacker News> Breaking out? Not fantasy, happened. Breaking in? Not fantasy, also happened.
That's simplifying the story to an extreme. The most plausible reason is that any of those actions has been prompted by an human. Do you also fear that a knife will jump out the countertop of you kitchen and come to attack you in your bedroom? If that happens, the police will be looking for a human. They will not post wanted notice for the knife.
When a hack happens, you do not blame computers and jail them. You look for the person that has entered the commands to initiate it.
The knife is inanimate. The LLM is not. OpenAI prompted some employee to run the tests. The employee prompted the LLM. The LLM setup a message board and prompted other LLMs, and the fly wheel was running. It had to be turned off manually otherwise it'd still be going today.
It's funny how a year ago talking about this kind of stuff would be laughed at by people like you, saying, "it's never happened before". Well it happened and you moved the goal posts like you always do.