If scrapping content is legal, model distillation should be legal too.

There are so many China born Chinese employees at Anthropic and OpenAI and I think quite a lot of them have already been recruited as spy . So it is almost impossible to keep secrets from Chinese government.

> steal the models or illegally distill them

The irony.

At what point though doesnt somebody stand back and say "wow, thats really dumb!" I think its probably more an indication of a dev having too much time on their hands rather than being in a hurry.

Not totally new territory; there was a highly compressed period of panic about encryption 35 [0] years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...

[0] f**k I'm old

> steal the models or illegally distill them

Oh no, they're trying to steal the models that were trained on stolen data? That's horrible, I feel so bad for Anthropic.