Matthew, this feels like it should be useful in your court case against AI theft. It probably won’t be, but it should be.
…[Ex Google CEO] Schmidt says:
If TikTok is banned, 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.”
That’s the command. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
A bit later, Schmidt returns to his TikTok example and says:
So, in the example that I gave of the TikTok competitor — and by the way, I was not arguing that you should illegally steal everybody’s music — what you would do if you’re a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is 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And do not quote me.
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.
– Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess” - The Verge