> Nobody cares how many trillions they spent training the model
People definitely care that they spent trillions. Establishing the precedent that you can make big load-bearing bets and fail is extremely threatening to oligarchs. They would sooner twist the law into a mockery of itself and doom the world to the institutional distrust that breeds than accept a loss.
The optimal outcome for humanity is to have the oligarchs spend their entire fortunes training a godlike AI, only for someone to suddenly leak the weights when they're finally done so that everyone can use it.
People definitely care that they spent trillions. Establishing the precedent that you can make big load-bearing bets and fail is extremely threatening to oligarchs. They would sooner twist the law into a mockery of itself and doom the world to the institutional distrust that breeds than accept a loss.