OpenAI has pretty much been ruined for me after they sold their souls to Microsoft, stopped releasing all their source code, and then dishonestly refer to their sad practice of censoring the training data as "AI safety/alignment" when in fact it will never be a reasonable AI safety technique in the long run, and is only done to avoid bad PR. Clearly OpenAI is no longer a company worthy of its founding principles of openness and making the world a better place. They're just yet another morally corrupt tech company.
I feel like they have no choice but to do some heavy-handed censorship strategy. People who have zero understanding of technology but an infinite supply of outrage will get the whole concept legislated out of existence on “think of the children” or “this computer program is _____ist” grounds if they allow anything even mildly disturbing.
The thing is, they release just enough information for people to eventually remake their models. Someone with no scruples will make a uncensored version eventually and then their work will have had the effect they claim to want to avoid anyway, but at least it won't reflect back on them.
That's why it's really nothing but a PR exercise. I honestly don't think they care much past that.
