Hmm. Maybe they are concerned about state actors trying to train equivalent models without the safeguards?
If a for profit company does a thing that could be motivated by profit or altruism, which of those 2 motivations do you think is most likely?
More like concerned about distillation.
Why invent new motives for Anthropic when their real motives are plain and obvious and have been confirmed time and time again by their behavior over the last few years? Their concern is their own power and wealth. Every other conceivable motive is secondary to that.