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But that's just the thing: OpenAI isn't supposed to have a product. They're supposed to offer a benefit to humankind.

They were supposed to be a non-profit mission driven organization. Having a product can be in alignment with that. In fact, I would happily pay for a product because I think paying for products is more constructive to humankind than the advertising business model.

The problem is that they have a for-profit arm.

And if you can't do it without money?

Two different things to have a product to sustain research and expenses vs. having a product to make company grow exponentially and make investors richer

What if OpenAI couldn't bring ChatGPT out with the fund they was able to raise prior to converting to for-profit?

If investors didn't get any benefits ("richer" in your parlance) why should they invest?

If they didn't invest where would the money come from? tax dollar? Can you envision tax dollar be spent on AI research? or would they bring ChatGPT as quickly or as capable?

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