[freejazz]

>Of course, they could have been lying at that point, in order to gain interest I suppose , but they were pretty outspoken about that idea at least in the beginning.

I don't see how those notions contradict each other when it's all to get funding.

[bloppe]

That's not what investors want to hear, so it definitely wasn't to get funding

[kjkjadksj]

It was to get engineers. No one wants to hear they are working for the next orphan crushing machine.

[freejazz]

Yet...

Or, to put it another way, you presume that investors want to hear how they will make money, as opposed to wanting to hear that OpenAI can 'talk the talk'