I mean, this kind of missing why AI is so favoured by capitalists despite its obvious unsustainability. AI is already extremely overvaluated for a number of reasons, but its speculative ability to expand corporate ownership of consumer computing while eliminating/devaluing human labour created a potentially infinite vector of growth in a stagnating industry. Because all of these companies invested so heavily into this, largely in a scramble over intellectual property, they were able to realize numbers for this speculative value. Since immaterial financialization is the only kind of growth in a system that is so imcompatible with material reality, these companies have no other option but to adopt the technology, as to deny it would mean that they are not following a profitable vector of growth.

It's a very perfect situation to demonstrate exactly why capitalism is an unsustainable system. Infinite growth and profit imperatives literally makes it impossible to make effective decisions.

"Held accountable" doesn't mean anything wuthin this system, as the legal framework is designed to the interests of capital. They will not choose to stop because neoliberal politics and economic have constructed the state as a viable vector of revenue and risk absorption should any of these gambles fail (especially after the '08 recession).