I don't pay OpenAI and I use their model via ChatGPT frequently.

By this logic one shouldn't be able to research for a newspaper article at a library.

And no doubt you understand that this is the current state, not a stable equilibrium.

They'll either go out of business or make better models paid while providing only weaker models for free despite both being trained on the same data.

journalism and newspapers indeed should not be for-profit, and current for-profit news corporations are doing harm in the pursuit of profit.