I don't think many people care that they are trying to detect resellers and distillation.

It also doesn't seem very consistent to fixate on that while sending Anthropic everything about you via your day to day prompts, every line of the projects and environments you're working on at work, etc.

Their credibility comes from having one of the best models.

When have they ever been credible? They have always been shady with their talk of safety, Dario was the one who wrote back in 2019 that GPT 2 was too dangerous to release.

Their philosophy is what's gone wrong.

It has some good effects on the their models, like Claude seeking cooperation first. But the people behind the company have a typical "unconstrained" (in the Sowell vision sense) perspective that assumes that they know better, so they are righteous for attempting to control things (users, paying customers, their model outputs, their tool chain, the supposed deity they assume they will produce... etc.)

They've only been around 5 years and have grown tremendously during that time. There's no stable reputation you can rely on yet.

They just show their true face. You’ve been lied all this time. They were never “good”.

Enshitification. Too big to.. upset the govt.