[jerpint]

Yes but in their wake they still left great contributions (CLIP, whisper, etc). So far they still seem net positive, even if they’re now for profit

[bayindirh]

I fail to see creating and releasing models as black boxes and strictly monetizing them while harvesting public data under the name of academic research as net positive.

They suck in public data, create models, let them loose, let hyped people improve them and profit off of data and people's free work.

IOW, a mechanical Turk which doesn't pay.