> If we want everything to be open sourced then chatgpt as it is now probably wouldn't be possible at all

All of the technology concepts behind chatGPT are openly accessible and have been for the past decade, as was the work before, a lot of it came from big tech companies that work for profit, the profit motive is not an excuse. Only unprecedented greed in the space.

Though it comes to no surprise from the company that thinks it can just take any copyrighted data from the internet without any permission while at the same time forbid others from training models from data they get from the company's products. It's just sleaziness at every level.

>But anyway I think basic theoretical breakthroughs like a new architecture for AI will still be shared among academia since those aren't directly related to money

This is exactly what hasn't happened, they refused outright to share any architectural detail, no one was expecting the weights or even code. This is what people are upset about, and rightly so