>They would go out of business in the first place paying for storage costs alone - let alone the access of everyone else to counter the rogue self-replicating.

>They would go out of business in the first place paying for storage costs alone - let alone the access of everyone else to counter the rogue self-replicating. These things reduce the total number of paperclips produced, and therefore would be accounted for by such an AI. The Universal Paperclips [https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html] game has a pretty good take on it.