I distinctly remember multiple big companies quietly letting go of their AI ethics teams in 2023 around the same time the LLM craze started to pick up real steam.
I don’t think the skeptics disappeared, they just got drowned out with all the added noise that came with the new LLM hype cycle.
I think it was just that the ethics legal moat creation strategy had failed and the ethics teams no longer served any purpose to company leadership.
I think this was more about scepticism around ethics teams.