[tptacek]

No? "Spin" implies there was something else they could possibly say.

[justacrow]

They could choose to not say it

[ethbr1]

Indeed. Taken to its conclusion, this thread suggests that corporations are justified in saying whatever they want in order to further their own ends.

Including lies.

I'd like to aim a little higher, maybe towards expecting correspondence with reality?

IOW, yes, there is no law that OpenAi can't try to spin this. But it's still a shitty, non-factually-based choice to make.

[mmooss]

I haven't heard that interpretation; I might call it spin of spin.

[mrgoldenbrown]

If you're being held at gunpoint and forced to lie, your words are still a lie. Whether you were forced or not is a separate dimension.

[bee_rider]

That is unrelated to what the expression means.