world's smallest violin plays...

"we ripped off the entire ecosystem of copyrighted data but I draw the line when we get ripped off"

Watching the tenants of intellectual gatekeeping bang up against the inevitable paradoxes of late stage capitalism - a spectacle worthy of jiffy pop.

“Hey stop stealing my data. I stole it fair and square.”

"we have information" says a US Government official who almost certainly has had Anthropic and/or OpenAI on the phone spinning him stories.

See also, don't trust anyone in Trump's government who says "we have information".

"they distilled us" is fast becoming standard US FUD.

The same as people telling me with a serious face that the Chinese models are distilled just because it says "I am Claude".

I am not the only one, look at this post on interconnects about Kimi K3 for example:[1]

     It should be clear looking at this model that if adversarial distillation from the closed frontier models in the U.S. contributed, it is at most to a relatively small degree. AI observers who followed the distillation panic and came away with the wrong conclusion that Chinese AI labs are only producing good models due to IP theft are in for an awakening – that Chinese companies are extremely good at building models in the same way the leading American companies are.

[1] https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k3-the-open-weights-esca...

It's both acceptable and inevitable. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is what they deserve for the awful way they treat creators and creative people's intellectual property and livelihood.

oh know, better make them pay up your legal fines for stealing all that from the public good.

I’m certain they did.

The problem is… what are you going to do about it?

This is obviously an idiotic and dangerous Cold War and has no happy ending.