Ben Horowitz on why that distilling a model isn't theft: "From a legal standpoint, the outputs of AI models are not copyright, they don't fall under copyright law. So the only thing distillation could be is a terms of service violation." "Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion for stealing everybody's books, including mine, by the way. They trained on my book. And I joined that class action lawsuit." "I'm for building a statistical model of the things we know. I think that's generally good for the world, as long as you don't violate the copyright and reproduce the original work. And I think distillation is generally good for the world. I also think they're gonna have a very hard time stopping it." "The whole idea that we're stealing American stuff, by the way, the data companies are all out selling to everybody, including the Chinese companies that are building these things. So I don't know how much you can contain all this stuff anyway." @bhorowitz