> which is why their best case scenario was them being the benevolent dictatory gatekeeping AI.

That seems like a fool's errand, even before they accepted MS's money, with Google, Facebook, and even Amazon in play.

To be an independent alternative to big corporations, I can understand. But all that went out the window with Altman, his deal with MS, and the direction he chose to take OpenAI - effectively becoming the big corporation they were suppose to fight.