Anthropic, Dario especially seems have eternal grudge against China as a concept, that remind me of Thiel.

That's one aspect, which is a bit of a gray zone. But Anthropic trained on pirated books. That is explicitly illegal.

>The AI companies seem to take the viewpoint that everything on the internet is free,

The AI companies? That's been the common ethos of the internet for 40 years

I mean, raise your hand if you ad block and have a hard drive of pirated content...

> But if you cost an AI provider money with your data acquisition practices, well, that's just clearly unacceptable.

It's the same question libertarian advocates cannot resolve:

  If one truly believes in personal sovereignty, how are
  shared resources paid for, such as roads, power grids,
  potable water, sewage services, fire departments,
  and police departments?

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