What trust ecosystem are you talking about ? It was a lack of foresight by google on their own discovery of transformers, and it would probably have been sitting in dust or been killed off by the time it would have taken them to reach GPT-2 level of progress.
Besides that, this comment contained a ton of statements on what “would” have happened had Google not published. Interesting but worthless way to defend openAI’s actions.
It's a lot easier to pat yourself on the back for releasing a paper about your techniques when your competitors can't replicate your service with it. I think that as generative AI models move past the hype phase into the competitive phase, they will be keeping a lot of innovation proprietary for at least a few years to maintain an edge over their competitors.
Let's just hope they don't move to patenting everything.
Whether Google pat itself on the back or not for releasing the paper no one could replicate, is not important, because an open research had never been their company’s goal. What happened is a for-profit company released a paper, that allowed a huge advantage to a company, whose mission was to ensure that no one has a huge advantage in the field. OpenAI was converted to for profit and established exclusive relationship with Microsoft.
Google fucked up and missed the train, but they can catch up. Much harder for smaller companies if as a result of this Fb, Google, etc AI research dept lock down their papers to tools to internal use only.