Current foundation AI models have safeguards in place to avoid generating content that could be used for disinformation, violence, and terrorism.
While not perfect, these safeguards have meant that we've been able to use ChatGPT over the last couple months, without a major backlash due to the technology being used for destructive purposes and it potentially being closed (as has happened many times before).
However, if you look at the most sensitive technologies, whether it's nuclear weapons or until recently cryptography, they're never open. The risk of them falling into the wrong hands is too high.
AI seems to us like any other software, as people who may understand it and its limitations. However, it's also a tool for unfathomable destruction -- not now, but in the coming years.
And so restrictions are almost certain to happen, and according to many, justified. You're not going to have access to "un-censored AI" in the coming years. That's unfortunately reality.
To put it another way, we're all concerned (at least in 1st would countries) about terrorists and hackers being the greatest threat to people's lives. So we're comfortable giving the government sole control of weapons - even though statistically that's not an accurate representation of the danger graph.
I don't know if it's good marketing or propaganda, but I find it ironic that "only government can be trusted".