John Oliver had a take on lawyers recently that was pretty good. He said that most lawyers are, as you say, essentially, to keep you from being sued. But he wanted lawyers to make sure that when he is sued, that he will win.
I imagine gaben hiring a lawyer to be creative and clever to outsmart the puritan censorship control of valve and steam. Then the lawyer taking time to think about it, giving up, and coming at gaben with that as legal advice, resulting in gaben being furious that the lawyer failed and passed that failure as default to what the opposition is trying to strongarm you to do as official advice.
Mastercard+visa: suck my cock and lick my over-ripe anus
Gaben: hey fuck you
Gaben: hires lawyer to try to not have to do that
Gaben: lawyer, I'm not doing that. What are my options?
Lawyer: huh, i am a potato and therefore have no real thought. i hereby legally suggest you suck their cock and lick their over-ripe anus. That'll be $3,000,000. Thanks.
Gaben: what the fuck do i pay you for if that's your opinion?
That's literally all AI's problems. AI isn't evil, it's the people and the way it's being done.
Gamers hate AI because it has skyrocketed hardware prices and dropped game quality and fired people
Artists hate AI because it has oversaturated markets and people use it to mass steal IP
Workers hate AI because it isn't very good, they can't get jobs because employers are obsessed with AI right now
And most people hate AI because it threatens our way of life without any governments fighting the billionaire ai owners or protecting us from outdated capitalism rather than switching to socialism
So yes, it's literally chaos as a ton of ignorant and/or evil people try to put half baked bullshit over on society, and the population is gonna have to swallow the shitty consequences at every step of the way
Haha good karma can only take you so far