Imagine social score and surveillance based on multi-modal LLM combined with military target selection and running politics via "AI". I'd quit too if I had to be complicit in that stuff. There's only so much ethical sabotage you can do.
Seems like wild speculation.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831
Why give up your seat at the table?
Could be there's a lot these ex employees are not sharing...
From the business point of view, continuing to improve the goose that is laying the golden eggs makes sense, but as a researcher they might have already ended up seeing the limit of adding compute and data, and wanted to pivot. As someone who worked a mid level manager/engineer, I can understand the frustration involved in making the management level understand what's really happening on the ground level.
