Comment by coderenegade

The morality of an organization is distinct from the morality of the decision-makers within the organization. Modern organizations are setup to distribute responsibility, and take advantage of extra-organizational structures and entities to further that end. Decision-makers often have legal obligations that may override their own individual morality.

Whenever any large organization takes a "think of the children" stance, it's almost always in service of another goal, with the trivial exception of single-issue organizations that specifically care about that issue. This doesn't preclude individuals, even within the organization, from caring about a given issue. But a company like OpenAI that is actively considering its own version of slop-tok almost certainly cares about profit more than children, and its senior members are in the business of making money for their investors, which, again, takes precedence over their own individual thoughts on child safety. It just so happens that in this case, child safety is a convenient argument for guard rails, which neatly avoids having to contend with advertisers, which is about the money.