Comment by fnordpiglet
4 hours ago
There’s a difference between stealing for model training and direct monitoring of actionable trade secrets and corporate espionage. Anthropic and OpenAI wouldn’t do this simply because they would be litigated out of existence and criminally investigated if they did. In China it’s an expected part of the corporate and legal structure with virtually no recourse for a foreign firm and when it’s in states interest domestic either. I’m surprised you don’t realize the US has fairly strong civil, criminal, and regulatory protections in place for theft of actionable material and reuse of corporate and trade secrets, let alone copyright materials. I assure you their ToS also do not allow them to do this and that in itself is a contractual obligation you can enforce and win in court.
Anthropic already admitted to heavily monitoring user requests to protect against distillation. They have everything in place, turning on learning from user data would literally be just a couple lines of code at this point. Anyone trusting them not to do it is a fool.
Absolutely. Plus as these companies become hungrier for revenue and to get out of the commodity market they are in, they are only going to get more aggressive in their (ab)use of customer data.