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Comment by Matl

2 years ago

You can outright buy OpenAI; as long as you're able to pay. By that definition everything is open/accessible/available.

Right. I'm not defending their naming choice, just pointing out that "open = you need to be rich" is an ancient trope in computing:

Open Group was formed through the merger of Open Software Foundation (est. 1988) and X/Open (est. 1984), and they were all pay-to-play.