This is exactly the kind of legal gray area move that YC companies like to take advantage of. It's not technically illegal for Reddit to fake users, for Airbnb to piggyback off Craigslist, for OpenAI to be a non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary, for PearAI to fork a competitor and relabel it as their own, for Flock to accidentally misidentify criminals, for Delve to fake SOCS compliance, or for Corgi to steal a competitor's product by having an LLM reproduce it instead of copying the code directly. If anything, YC will just help them with their legal defense.

And incinerate a nearly $3 billion valuation? Easier to mutter "great artists steal" to oneself and move on.