I can think of two very important reasons just off the top of my head.
1. --- It will kill captchas for good. Half of the internet is protected by Cloudflare or Google captchas at this point. Spam, fraud, and other trouble has a maximum possible volume because you can only pay a human in India so little to solve them for you. If you have an algorithm that can complete it, the game is up. Sites may as well not have a captcha at all. Prevention then becomes much more Orwellian with hardware TPM attestation solutions and the internet as we know is forever changed.
2. --- It will show corporations and governments just how all-seeing video surveillance could be. Human or (by some reports, above-human) level computer vision is a Pandora's box all by itself.
OpenAI might simply be wanting to avoid opening any more family-size cans of worms than there already are.
1. --- It will kill captchas for good. Half of the internet is protected by Cloudflare or Google captchas at this point. Spam, fraud, and other trouble has a maximum possible volume because you can only pay a human in India so little to solve them for you. If you have an algorithm that can complete it, the game is up. Sites may as well not have a captcha at all. Prevention then becomes much more Orwellian with hardware TPM attestation solutions and the internet as we know is forever changed.
2. --- It will show corporations and governments just how all-seeing video surveillance could be. Human or (by some reports, above-human) level computer vision is a Pandora's box all by itself.
OpenAI might simply be wanting to avoid opening any more family-size cans of worms than there already are.