OpenAI is private, so you can't short its stock even if you wanted to.
There are plenty of proxy businesses you could short, though, including various power companies or Nvidia, if one had the appetite.
the remainder of the Democrat base rejected them as not pure enough,
The Democratic base is not a left/right mirror image of the Republican base. The Democratic base is not online leftists, who again and again are revealed in every single party contest of every kind to be powerless and outnumbered. The actual Democratic base is boring centrists that love Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, and have supported corporations for decades.
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.