I'm confused why Chinese access to Anthropic A.I. would need to involve stolen accounts.

Couldn't I simply give a Chinese friend my key on Open router?

Let’s not kid ourselves, Anthropic would be running their own distillation “attacks” too if _they_ were the ones playing catch-up. They’ve already shown as much with their illegal scraping of pirated books ($1.5B settlement).

I say just let them duke it out. After a decade of regulatory capture and enshittification, it’s nice to see some actual competition again.