Is distillation an issue that stops you from picking a model, while scraping/torrenting as much of the Internet as possible is fine?

It's not like Anthropic and OAI have clean hands, especially as they're now racing each other to appear the most dangerous to civilization.

As a paying user, I expect to get what I'm paying for. I'm paying for thinking tokens, so I should be getting them, and in a way that I can actually read if/when I want without relying on any proprietary tools. I have no interest in being locked in.

Not an issue for me, the end user.