Why would you expect them to notice the problem right away? Seems likely they are doing this sort of training on a massive scale with little monitoring.

"...Sam Altman recognised it would be a great PR and decided it should continue with increased compute budget?"

If that's what happened, Sam should go to jail.

Getting more and more fun to see the "full steam ahead" people contort into more impressive shapes.

Hint: If the labs making these technologies are incentivized to create or allow attacks on other services, then that is actually also a big fucking problem.