The cron job canary was probably not a service that employees were uploading tonnes of company confidential material into, was it? So I fail to see how the comp

The cron job canary was probably not a service that employees were uploading tonnes of company confidential material into, was it? So I fail to see how the comparison makes sense. The reason companies shun OpenAI and want a self hosted alternative isn't related to costs, it's becasue they don't want their code, internal emails, documentation etc to be uploaded to Microsoft and thus also directly to the NSA.