It's not cynical to simply remind everyone who and what is motivating OpenAI (i.e. ClosedAI) at this point. They're no longer about helping the "AI community". They're about holding back from the community. Like you said: "That's what competition is."
That's an incredibly cynical choice of phrasing.
Of course they don't want to help the competition, that's what a competition is. The competition isn't helping OpenAI either.