I have a feeling EA[1] is like anarcho capitalist communities (or just inverse for socialism) where you have a good idea like markets==good then apply it like a hammer to everything you see in life. Any hint of gov/statism is treated as the enemy, regardless of its IRL negative impact on markets or net freedom, or whatever positive end goal they envision.

OpenAI is (hypothetically) progressing to AGI, therefore bad. Whether GPT specifically is a half a foot on a 1000km journey or potentially insignificant, it doesn't matter to them as they've pre-selected any potential for progress as all bad.

[1] if you search "Helen Toner" on YouTube it's just a collection of videos of her talking at EA conferences. So she's a believer