This is part of why I can't feel bad for them. The training data is mostly pirated. Whining about Chinese labs training off American frontier models is "waaah you pirated my pirated stuff!"
The tech itself is amazing and fascinating and cool, but the industry is a mass piracy operation.
i partially agree. distillation is non-ethical; but so are the supposed way that the ai models are trained. they are often also derived from data sets that are not intended/full-consented