@imyke Haha, fair point! I was curious enough about their stance to log into Twitter and read their own replies.

They acknowledge the utility of “distillation" but point out that foreign labs should not distill American models.

I mean, I'm pretty sure Anthropic's models aren't trained on American data only

@nighthawk Properly a little less, at least from the software industry, but I think authors and artists would give the same backlash.

Just to be clear: my post isn't meant as backlash, per se. I use AI tools frequently. I just don't want Anthropic etc. to cry about someone stealing from them when that's their entire business.

Hypocrites.

You built an industry on scraping the internet and now you’re shocked someone scraped you. You normalized the idea that anything publicly accessible is fair game for training. That’s the precedent you set. I don’t want to hear you bitch about it now.