OpenAI's strategy for "AI safety" - don't release weights, build a walled garden, charge for access - seems to conveniently coincide with a nice little SaaS bus

OpenAI's strategy for "AI safety" - don't release weights, build a walled garden, charge for access - seems to conveniently coincide with a nice little SaaS business model. their usage restrictions are more akin to app store guidelines, and (I suspect) mostly serve to justify keeping models from direct access by the masses. if anything, OpenAI has made me more cynical about "AI safety" messaging because it looks like an excuse to take a cut and keep things proprietary.