If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.

We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?

@cstross

When did we - by which I mean people in general - accept that the proliferation of bullshit engines is any type of 'industry'? The end result is never going to be anything other than a shrug at all the wasted time, money, water and other resources which could've been used to solve problems, but instead went to increasing the number of jets per-capita amongst the already morbidly wealthy. That's not an industry, it doesn't produce anything in the end. That's a shell game.