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I'm not sure they were ever pretending. I saw another Lemmy post about the Musk-OpenAI email exchanges from 8 years ago.
They seemed very open that the long term plan was to become a for profit company. They said they weren't ready yet and rejected Elon's demand to make him majority owner and merge with Tesla.
Elon's biggest enemy is his own ego and wanting to be relevant
Open AI got a taste of that Microsoft money and everything changed. Well Sam changed course which had a lot to do with the fact that he was fired for 3 days. I do believe in the beginning they fully intended to be non profit and open.
They always planned to be for profit. It wasn't a taste of MS money, it was the plan to sell out from the beginning. Musk got mad because they didn't sell out to him for pennies.
"OpenAI wrote in the blog that the company and Musk both agreed that a for-profit was the next step for the startup in the fall of 2017. But when Musk failed to win majority equity, OpenAI accused him of walking away and saying the company would "fail." "
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-publishes-more-elon-musks-004549026.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABRINM4BbU2net5_AGrEJMONXSl3cnYa2geFWsFyz_5Gbs6vyn8uNrnb6NXn5jmLViXMbro8ns8iS6LlgDuWaazRNEM1AQRia29Gl8ZN-s8elRtWmgdjol4ybPUge96HpsxrNWRBi2JJNkc-xnFJdbo_rCff2MVQ5q8DPJtICSIo