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Comment by zkmon

12 hours ago

I don't understand. If they are simply using our API and paying for tokens, it's called a "transaction" and not "attack". The user is our customer who is supporting our business by buying our services. And we call them attackers. We happily make money by selling our services, and then call it as attack.

Back in the day, an "attack" was supposed to mean be someone acquiring our assets without paying for them or without having our consent. But none of this seems to have happened in this case.

We built a product without paying for most of the raw material we have used, and we don't call that as an "attack". Did we change the meaning of "attack"?

Did Anthropic 'attack' all those authors it was forced to pay $1.5bn to for using their work without permission?