Remember that they have been saying that since gpt2.

I didn't think crying could be such a successful business model.

People keep on mentioning gpt2, but it's worth recalling that back in 2019 it was basically the first model that was capable of zero-shot generation of coherent multi-paragraph text. Having it write security exploits like Mythos wasn't even on the radar. Rather, the concerns were about misuse and societal implications, which in retrospect were pretty prescient: https://openai.com/index/gpt-2-6-month-follow-up/

It's just "thinking past the sale" which they've been doing forever.

i.e. "I'm so worried that our capped for-profit structure will limit your returns when we make over 1 Trillion in profit".