Follow the money: OpenAI has been giving cash stipends to college students to run astroturfed events on campuses. This "OpenAI Student Collective" is not a registered student organization and it's unclear how such an event could be compliant with the Campus Use of University Facilities policy, which normally prohibits commercial use of classrooms. (These are typical at any university. Note the dodgy language about whether one needs to form an official student group.) https://openai.com/student-collective/ I don't know how big OpenAI's cash stipends are, but Anthropic's are $3600.