Not to play the exact opposite role of a charitability theorist, but if one assumes OpenAI's founding principles are sincerely held, then that lobbying campaign

Not to play the exact opposite role of a charitability theorist, but if one assumes OpenAI's founding principles are sincerely held, then that lobbying campaign may be more public good-intentioned than profit-intentioned. Under such a framing, they would would argue "yes, a freely available model indeed is a threat while a carefully protected model accountable to internal and governmental oversight is less of a threat" because they believe that to be the case, not because they want a monopoly. (I don't necessarily actually believe this. I just feel like any good conspiracy theory warrants an equal and opposite angel-devil's advocate.)