I find it hugely hilarious that they can't realize

i) they they'd be destroying themselves by keeping US locked into high prices while the rest of the world gets access to free models

ii) no scruples at all with respect to common good

iii) the dork literally works for 'open ai' - who's original mission was 'nobody controls it'. Granted - it's hypocritical of Atman AI to flip private, but there are also legit reasons for that, as much as excuses.

Point four is especially telling.

Ball is deeply terrified of "AI communism", or in less red-scarey terms a world where AI is a public good and him and his fellow oligarchs don't get to centralize the accumulated knowledge of all of humanity and charge rent for it.

I think he's so deeply stuck in his ideological bubble he can't conceive that what he describes as a dystopia is the only way the future wouldn't be a dystopia for the vast majority of people.

Or to put it more clearly, the oligarch utopia he's trying to build is dystopia for the vast majority of humanity. The "utopia" he's trying to build is one of riches for him and serfdom for us.