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No, they did some good, they've done a few things to personally help me. They created OpenAI Gym which is a great help when doing reinforcement learning research and defined the standard interface for reinforcement learning libraries for a generation. But they not longer maintain OpenAI Gym.

They also created Spinning Up [0], one of the best resources I've found for learning reinforcement learning. Their teaching resources are detailed but relatively brief and are focused on implementing the algorithms, even if some of the "proofs" are neglected. But they no longer maintain Spinning Up.

So yes, originally they were for-the-good, but lately I've noticed them moving away from that in more ways than one. It seems they learned one cool trick with language sequence modelling, and they have a lot of compute, and this is all they do now.

[0]: https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/