I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.
typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any private or public profit driven corporation ever. Mind you that's also a libertarian principle but tech libertarians always leave that part off.
Inelastic just means consumers aren't sensitive to price. The classical example is prescription drugs. Consumers are not price sensitive b/c they NEED those drugs. As such the seller can raise price and not see a drop off in sales.
I think a good example of a highly elastic good is hamburgers. Is McDonalds raises burger prices by 300% there a ton of other options for consumers to switch to and sales will drop.