Sure, it isn't as good as source code and model weights... But having a paper probably reduces by 90% the time+money expense to reproduce the work.
It mostly suggests that we're in another AI hype bubble. MS and other big tech companies can easily replicate OpenAI results and do same type of research.
I'm just disappointed the compute cost alone seems difficult to surmount for open source/community projects.
'compute' costs are tricky to convert to dollar values - everyone does it at 'what would it cost to rent this from AWS', but the reality is, people like AWS are prepared to give low priority access to unsold compute for almost any project.