I used to work at one of the first deep learning image recognition startups, it was all going great, we raised a ton of money, hired a lot of people and built s

I used to work at one of the first deep learning image recognition startups, it was all going great, we raised a ton of money, hired a lot of people and built some amazing technology. The founder was on the covers of fancy business magazines and it looked like we were the next big thing. Then revenue growth stalled and we shifted to enterprise consulting, which caused a lot of the early employees to quit (including myself). A few months after I quit they took on the Maven project that Google and Amazon employees protested against and in no time after that they had an office near DC with a bunch of ex generals on their staff. Now they work on secret projects that nobody still working there can tell you anything about. Moral of the story, you can be a well meaning person and work on cool tech but you have no control over how it will get used in the future. The same thing that happened in CV will happen with all of these LLM startups once growth stalls and they're unable to raise another up round to cover their huge expenses.