Some people are also forgetting who is the CEO of OpenAI.
Sam Altman has long talked about believing in the "move fast and break things" way of doing business. Which is just a nicer way of saying do whatever dodgy things you can get away with.
OpenAI's also in the position of having to compete against other LLM trainers - including the open-weights Llama models and their community derivatives, which have been able to do extremely well with a tiny fraction of OpenAI's resources - and to justify their astronomical valuation. The economic incentive to cheat is extreme; I think that cheating has to be the default presumption.
Sam Altman has long talked about believing in the "move fast and break things" way of doing business. Which is just a nicer way of saying do whatever dodgy things you can get away with.