They've achieved marvellous things, OpenAI, but the pivot and long-standing refusal to deal with it honestly leaves an unpleasant taste, and doesn't bode well for the future, especially considering the enormous ethical implications of advantage in the field they are leading.
It is inevitable that the regulators will get in the way and open source alternatives will also catch up with OpenAI as they have done with GPT-3 and with DALLE-2 and even less than 2 months of ChatGPT, open source alternatives are quickly appearing everywhere.