Article title: Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’
Okay, I editorialized the title a bit. Basically, Eric Schmidt said that if you were to build a competitor to TikTok after it gets banned using AI, then you could just steal all of the IP, and if your company was not successful, then nobody really cares. But if your company was successful, then you would have the money to pay off the lawyers to get you out of a jam.
It is a rather obvious acknowledgment that money and success tend to generate more money and success. One can engage in dishonest acts, cheating, stealing IP, etc. as long as they possess the money to hire lawyers to get themselves out of the situation.
They even took down the talk from YouTube because of how bad it looked.
And I thought Musk and Trump were the only one stupid enough to admit the obviously evil shit.
for me it reeks of their internal panic at the tendency of the rate of the profit to fall
"And do not quote me."
At this point, Brynjolfsson points out that, “You’re on camera,” to which Schmidt responds:
"Yeah, that’s right. But you see my point. In other words, Silicon Valley will run these tests and clean up the mess. And that’s typically how those things are done."
I almost wanted to say the US is a clown car of a country, but that would be insulting to clowns.
so that's why google stopped using the "don't be evil" slogan, it wasn't according to their newfound worldview
