That giant shock to the NLP research community is more than two years old now. It would be interesting to hear from people affected by that today, I'd like to know what they ended up doing in response.
That's true. From the quanta article it looks like many affected researchers went on to work on LLMs successfully.
I do wonder how people are adjusting to similar, ongoing shocks across other industries. For instance, the ArtStation protest against AI art a couple years ago showed widespread hostility towards the technology. In the time since, AI art has only gotten better and been adopted more, but from articles like [1] it doesn't seem like concept artists have much benefitted.
