What do you mean? It recommends things that it thinks people will like.
Also I highly suspect "Altman's OpenAI" is dead regardless. They are now Copilot(tm) Research.
They may have delusions of grandeur regarding being able to resist the MicroBorg or change it from the inside, but that simply does not happen.
The best they can hope for as an org is to live as long as they can as best as they can.
I think Sam's 100B silicon gambit in the middle east (quite curious because this is probably something the United State Federal Government Is Likely Not Super Fond Of) is him realizing that, while he is influential and powerful, he's nowhere near MSFT level.