Is it the same as avoiding AWS because they will take your software and run it themselves to steal your clients?
I'm assuming that the target customer of this is people whose moat is proprietary data. If their moat is a unique approach to building a model, then it would indeed be dangerous to engage OpenAI. But then I'd think OpenAI would be hesistent to engage as well.
Also dynamo db.
AWS took an open source project (Elastic) and forked it. They did not take an AWS customer's code.