alt Hacker NewsOne could make the argument that
"just do it and ask for forgiveness later"
is what the entire LLM industry is based on. They swallowed up all of society’s copyrighted texts without really asking for permission from anyone. This is just par for the course for them it seems unfortunately.
One could argue that it is what Trevithick did to make better steam engines, or what Cisco did with routers. Or countless others.
IP theft can really pay off.