Shady companies do this so that people get locked into the product and then come to expect it. Then the companies suck the blood out of the local and national government for every cent.
If a government thinks that ChatGPT even in its current form is a big boon, it makes sense to do this.
This is also insurance - your population gains LLM literacy and will have an advantage over other countries; even if it's only a tiny bit, at the level of states it adds up.
No, not gonna pay yet another tax, mr. Taxman.