If you're OpenAI, you couldn't really care less about it, I suppose, because people need you to run those prompts, they're not easily transferred between models

If you're OpenAI, you couldn't really care less about it, I suppose, because people need you to run those prompts, they're not easily transferred between models if I understand correctly. But if you're an OpenAI-API-Reseller and your value proposition is prepending a prompt to whatever input you're given, that's very much a concern, because people can easily cut out the middle man if they have the prompt. The SaaS boom has happened for the same reason, hasn't it? If you deliver a software / library, people can look at it and replace you. If all you provide an API where nobody can "view source", they can't, and you can forever collect rent.