“The pressure from [CTO] Kevin [Scott] and [CEO] Satya [Nadella] is very very high to take these most recent openAI models and the ones that come after them and move them into customers hands at a very high speed”
Microsoft’s ethics and society team had about 30 people in 2020, seven after October, and zero after a March 6 Teams call. It had warned that Bing Image Creator could copy living artists’ styles, and employees say none of its fixes shipped. Microsoft has put $11 billion into OpenAI and told investors each point of search share is worth $2 billion a year. The people paid to say “slow down” were the cheapest line item to cut.