For years, tech giants like Google and Facebook have been developing the underlying tech behind tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion--but had been cautious about releasing them due to concerns over safety, bias, and misinfo.

Now, with tech stocks tumbling and ChatGPT hype soaring, insiders say there's growing pressure to stop listening to the ethicists and cassandras and charge ahead despite the risks. New from @nitashatiku, Gerrit De Vynck and me: washingtonpost.com/technology/