I don't think that's what is being said. False flag, I presume in this scenario is to say were going to do something about the impending "AI threat" and to be associated with it. There is probably little threat, but to some investors this starts to look like perceived "AGI". Getting your name involved in the hype is marketing 101

I think the commenter is saying that OpenAI committed a false flag operation, not Tailscale.

For Tailscale, this may very well be marketing, but it would be strangely self defeating for OpenAI to do something like what is being suggested. Showing that you failed to govern your model is a pretty poor way to say "We're the only ones who should be trusted to govern frontier models".

This. It isn't only OpenAI, but Anthropic too now. They're normalising bad governance, acting with impunity.

Honestly, this is a crime in the UK, and I'm sure a number of other places globally.

Maybe because I can spot the pixels, I can possibly see in 8K?

Profoundly stupid people like that are everywhere, not just HN.

Indeed, people like you, who gulp up reports by big tech companies without any evidence.

The stupidity lies in not accepting that everyone has an agenda.