As sad as Carmack working for Facebook.

One would expect that bright people would know better, specially after the Manhattan project.

In what ways do you view working for OpenAI as a bad thing?

No good will come from the business model offered by "Open"AI. It is not like the personal computer revolution that created tremendous wealth and opportunity. These companies are not developing "tools" like the personal PC. The models are closed, trained on closed data and cost a fortune to train. All they will ever offer is a paid prompt.

They sometimes open their older models: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper