I'm willing to praise Musk to the extent that he's consistently advocated for getting out in front of dangerous AI, and brought it to public attention as one of

I'm willing to praise Musk to the extent that he's consistently advocated for getting out in front of dangerous AI, and brought it to public attention as one of the gravest dangers facing our survival. That being said, it seems inevitable that companies like OpenAI will close and rent their models - and have perfectly good cover for doing so, as democratizing them would potentially bring even worse dangers than their control falling to megacorps. In the end this is all irrelevant, as demonstrated by Dall-E, because there's no real moat to competition. All you need is massive compute and investment.