I don’t know how they’d go about doing this but there need to be provisions that it can never become a for-profit agency. OpenAI gained traction by doing cutting-edge research and touting it as open to the public (or at least researchers) and then pulled the rug out from under everyone when they struck gold. In case the LAION discovers a new architecture that dwarfs the capability of LLMs, they should never be able to say “ok time to start a company and mint billions now!”.