Sure, but that's usually a winning scenario. It means whatever they're doing is successful enough that it doesn't require donations. In this case people were s

Sure, but that's usually a winning scenario. It means whatever they're doing is successful enough that it doesn't require donations. In this case people were supporting AI research. Well... it worked :) GPT-3 is likely to open the AI chapter in history books. For another example: you support cancer research and they find a cure. You can't expect everything else (trials, approval process, manufacture, distribution) to work on a donation model as well. I mean, probably there are 15 year olds who'd seriously ask "why not", but leaving them aside - going commercial means you won.