OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab that began as a nonprofit in 2015 with a promise to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return,” has become a closed-source, for-profit behemoth, according to a report published Tuesday by Vice.

The company, which recently launched ChatGPT and secured a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft, has also partnered with Bain to bring machine learning to Coca-Cola’s operations, with plans to expand to other corporate partners. Its GPT-3 model remains proprietary, accessible only via a paid API, and the source code for GPT-2, initially withheld due to “concerns about malicious applications,” was eventually released after a three-month delay.

Critics point to CEO Sam Altman’s blog post last Friday, titled “Planning for AGI and beyond,” as evidence of the company’s shift. In it, Altman uses broad, idealistic language about AGI benefiting all humanity, but—as researchers including Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender note on Twitter—fails to define AGI or address concrete risks such as bias and misinformation. The post comes as OpenAI’s Bing chatbot makes headlines for erratic behavior, and the company acknowledges it cannot reliably detect text generated by its own model.

The Hacker News thread has 567 comments and 1,623 points, with users calling the pivot a “betrayal” and noting that the company’s very name now feels like a misnomer. One commenter recalls that when Musk left OpenAI due to conflicts of interest, Altman “founded OpenAI LP, the for-profit workaround so they didn’t have to obey those pesky charity rules.” Another writes that “the pivot and long-standing refusal to deal with it honestly leaves an unpleasant taste.”