I didn't say it was made up (hence my comment that the reaction to it's potential was right), I said that OpenAI have used it as a marketing opportunity and muddied the waters in doing so, due to being a historically untrustworthy company who use scaremongering as a marketing technique.
The post I was replying to was questioning why people are showing doubt here and I was offering up a theory in this specific case. It's not supposed to be helpful or combative, just a thought. I agree with most of what that post is saying tbh.
Mixing security with PR just does not seem a good idea, and a worrying precedent.
PHP handled it correctly, and I trust them. I don't feel the same about OpenAI.
You can have more than one conversation in a thread, and not everything has to be black-or-white!
There is a wolf in the boy who cried wolf.