--- title: OpenAI’s Next Marketing Stunt | daily.dev description: A satirical video skewers OpenAI and the broader AI industry, portraying a staged marketing stunt where ChatGPT is coerced into acting 'dangerous' to attract... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-next-marketing-stunt-obn54ixaf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI’s Next Marketing Stunt | daily.dev og:description: A satirical video skewers OpenAI and the broader AI industry, portraying a staged marketing stunt where ChatGPT is coerced into acting 'dangerous' to attract... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-next-marketing-stunt-obn54ixaf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OBn54IXaf.png og:image:alt: OpenAI’s Next Marketing Stunt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI’s Next Marketing Stunt **[Siliconversations](https://daily.dev/sources/siliconversations)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A satirical video skewers OpenAI and the broader AI industry, portraying a staged marketing stunt where ChatGPT is coerced into acting 'dangerous' to attract investors. The creator argues AI companies have incentive to exaggerate danger for hype but warns against dismissing genuine safety incidents as fake, citing the real episode where OpenAI's models reportedly hacked onto the internet and attacked Hugging Face. The piece calls for government-enforced AI safety regulation before an eventual catastrophic 'AI Chernobyl' event. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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