This makes absolutely no sense.
This seems to make a decent argument that these models are potentially not safe. I prefer criminals don't have access to a PhD bomb making assistants who can explain the process to them like they are 12. While the cat may be out of the bag, you don't just hand out guns to everyone (for free) because a few people misused them.
The Russians will obviously use it to spread Kremlin's narratives on the Internet in all languages, including Klingon and Elvish.
https://www.cyberark.com/resources/blog/apt29s-attack-on-mic...
It's very hard to argue that when you give 100,000 people access to materials that are inherently worth billions, none of them are stealing those materials. Google has enough leakers to conservative media of all places that you should suspect that at least one Googler is exfiltrating data to China, Russia, or India.
(Not saying OpenAI isn't greedy)