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.
“This will revolutionize everything!” is corpo speak for “this is the next grift to wring riches out of the people.”
for me it reeks of their internal panic at the tendency of the rate of the profit to fall