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InkCanontoday at 9:15 AM1 replyview on HN

Anthropic is master of Newspeak (see previously bugs -> vulnerabilities wrt Mythos). Distillation violates their terms of service, which is a civil offense, not a criminal one. It is not illicit, illegal nor breaks any laws.


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Retr0idtoday at 7:21 PM

It's a clever choice of words because "illicit" does not necessarily mean illegal, so they're technically not wrong, even though that's the connotation they clearly want to convey.