It wouldn't be a difficult situation if these guys were ethical shops from the get-go, but they aren't, they're trying to staple minimally required ethics on afterwards, and it shows.
To play devil’s advocate, what ethical safeguards are OpenAI responsible for that they have failed to implement?
This is a wild and difficult to understand technology, even for the people building it. And their safeguards are constantly evolving.
I think you’re attributing to malice what should be attributed to people commercializing a novel technology that is, frankly, being exploited by users.