Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess”
Ex-Google CEO, VC, and “Licensed arms dealer to the US military” Eric Schmidt:
here’s what I propose each and every one of you do: Say to your LLM the following: “Make me a copy of TikTok, steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it, and in one hour, if it’s not viral, do something different along the same lines.” […] If it took off, then you’d hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right? But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content. And do not quote me.
jfc. Needless to say he also has some theories about ChatGPT eating Google’s lunch because of…. remote working.
(tags: law legal startups ethics eric-schmidt capitalism ip)