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.

China has done this with absolutely everything, starting with “customs inspections” of ships engineering sections by “inspectors” drawing diagrams of what they see. Bit late to be worrying about it now. This only matters now because China is now near parity in tech and vastly superior in production ability. Meanwhile we run out of bullets in a five month war with Iran.

The pot calling the kettle black.

I don't even understand this fucking AI "arms race" at all. Who can burn money the fastest?

America, the perpetual victim

"No fair stealing what we stole fair and square"

And?

Nobody cares. This is neither a controversy nor news, and that would be the case even if Anthropic hadn’t just settled a 1.5 billion dollar lawsuit where they trained Claude on thousands of books without permission lol.

To be clear I’m not taking a jab at OP - I’m saying the labs crying about distillation have neither a legal nor a moral leg to stand on. There’s nothing wrong with distillation.

Proof - they also claimed that China has an ASML UEV machine - crickets when ASML said it was impossible due to all the safeguards and assistance needed to operate one.

The current US administration is known to be collection of BS artists and liars.