Silicon Valley's ethics language was designed to manage perception, not constrain behavior — and the argument now emerging is that this design flaw is exploitable. Daniel Dobrygowski's piece in Tech Policy Press [7] makes the case that commitments to autonomy, fairness, and human-centered technology, stated publicly and repeatedly by the labs, are now available as political claims. The labs cannot easily disavow values they have spent years marketing. The gap between those stated values and actual deployment choices is not just hypocrisy — it is a vulnerability.