it's a stunt to convince the government that only they can be trusted to operate it and that their competition/small local deployments cannot.
Imagine thinking that repeatedly demonstrating your inability to control your own models is "a stunt to convince the government that only they can be trusted to operate it"
Truly spectacular gymnastics. I'll give it an 8/10.
Well that would explain why HuggingFace announced that the use of an open-weight model was critical to their investigation of the incident :-)