That was before it was discovered that these LLM have incredible monetary potential.
The writing was on the wall when they feigned horror at an early GPT being able to play poker in the 2010s, and failed to release the model
I think Mr Altman had this idea from the beginning, and in his own, "can't stop lying" way, he lied.
Trust that they already knew long before, and that this was the play all along.
And if you don't believe that, do some digging into the lives of the psychopaths that started it.
LLMs themselves don't. But selling LLM related bullshit to investors has.
Not really. The entire premise of the structure was that obviously AI would be immensely valuable and that they needed binding contract structures to prevent themselves from falling victim to the greed and ambition that would obviously consume those at the helm.
Unfortunately their contract structures weren't strong enough to protect from the combination of the "king of the cannibals" and completely absentee regulatory oversight.