[kaibee]

> But distillation is not theft.

Legally no, but I think an honest reading of the 'fair use' statute doesn't actually pass the 'doesn't compete with the author's original work' aspect of fair use, even if the use is transformative.

[VulgarExigency]

Fair use? Anthropic does not own the copyright to the output of their LLMs. Fair use does not enter into it at all.