are people not realizing that they are exaggerating this to: 1. get publicity 2. push for regulation so that no one else is allowed to do this kind of research

are people not realizing that they are exaggerating this to: 1. get publicity 2. push for regulation so that no one else is allowed to do this kind of research apart from the pre-approved big corps it makes for a good story but I don't see what the big deal is. they left some code running and it brute forced hacked something. with enough compute you can brute force anything; isn't that common knowledge?