alt Hacker NewsFor what it’s worth, Anthropic very strongly claim that they don’t degrade model performance by time of day [1]. I have no reason to doubt that, imo Anthropic are about as ethical as LLM companies get.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...
Banning paying users with no warning doesn’t seem super ethical. Probably not unethical, either, but I would not frame them as “the most ethical”