> You name the 10 most important tech products of the year so far.
Do name them, please. And then revisit that list and ask yourself: how many of them exist because of two things:
- unlimited investor money with no expectation of profitability
- blatant disregard of data privacy, user privacy, and/or other laws.
Great example is OpenAI. They said they welcomed regulation. The moment EU proposed level-headed sensible regulation [1] that among other things required documentation on how foundational models are trained and where they get their data, Altman screamed that they would pull out of EU.
Do name them, please. And then revisit that list and ask yourself: how many of them exist because of two things:
- unlimited investor money with no expectation of profitability
- blatant disregard of data privacy, user privacy, and/or other laws.
Great example is OpenAI. They said they welcomed regulation. The moment EU proposed level-headed sensible regulation [1] that among other things required documentation on how foundational models are trained and where they get their data, Altman screamed that they would pull out of EU.
[1] https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...