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If the rumors are correct, pissing off Microsoft was probably not ideal. Nadella was supposedly livid that they were blindsided with the news.
Given that Microsoft has adopted a blatent path to enshitification, having copilot's name being tarnished ahead of schedule was probably not good.
This little hiccup exposed the for-profit and non-profit sides of OpenAI to more people, gave their board members more exposure and exposed Altman's history with his sister. This stuff was public before, but nobody cared. Now that people are curious, it's "a bad look".
Meta simultaneously disolved their "Responsible AI" team as well. While that could have been for any number of reasons, my first thought is: "Whelp! We don't need to keep that charade going any more."
My only hope is that VC money still tends to err on the side of paranoia, gets pulled out and that we have a quick collapse of the fly-by-night AI companies.