Empirical studies like this are hard to conduct... I'm curious though. This study was authored by at least two folks from Microsoft and one of the sample groups

Empirical studies like this are hard to conduct... I'm curious though. This study was authored by at least two folks from Microsoft and one of the sample groups in the study was also from Microsoft. The reason this seems to stand out to me as odd is that Microsoft also owns the AI tool being used in the study and would definitely want a favourable conclusion in this paper. Is that a flag we should be watching out for?