from the article<p>* OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision. ChatGPT is already blocked in China by the government’s firewall, but until this week developers could use virtual private networks to access OpenAI’s tools in order to fine-tune their own generative AI applications and benchmark their own research. Now the block is coming from the US side.*<p>If chatgtp is blocked anyway, there little advantage to allow researchers access but bekng able to monetize.