They’re a for-profit business doing what for-profit businesses do. All I hope is that the politicians make a sensible choice, and find a balance between innovation and regulation.
They've also said that if they can't do business under some new regulation, they will stop doing business.
These do not seem like the actions of a sneaky sneaky double-bluff, but who knows — perhaps Sam Altman has automated himself away with an unannounced version of GPT-5.
PopeGPT debating آیت الله-GPT about theology could be interesting; but do you want to wake up to the news that советский-GPT is running a successful propaganda war in the USA and now the American Communist Party is likely to win the next presidential election? That ChatKimJongUn is successfully boosting the industrial capacity of the North despite sanctions?
That's why international agreements are also relevant, even if you don't share Yudkowsky's fear of alignment failures paper-clipping everyone.