It's like owners coming to resemble their dogs.

Indeed.

Although what keeps me up at night is the worry that it's easier to automate attack than it is to automate defense, and that containing these systems is a losing game. Could an optimally competent OpenAI succeed?

They look reckless... so far. They keep doing this enough, and I'm sure people will start seeing it as a smokescreen for real hacking operations, which may very well be the case.

It's clear that they intend to keep all such attacks under wraps until someone else discovers them. OpenAI is not a credible or trustworthy company.

They want you to think they are reckless. They’re actually evil.