The other similar incidents did not strike me as PR, because they exhibited behavior the common public would recoil over. This one seems possibly PR because it

The other similar incidents did not strike me as PR, because they exhibited behavior the common public would recoil over. This one seems possibly PR because it states what the others would have stated were they (good) PR: “the model had the power to hack in, but it was wise enough to not be evil”, and stopped, and left the network untouched, and didn’t cheat Corporate America will love this one, while being petrified of the others. Maybe it’s true though. Doesn’t really matter at this point.