The crux of the issue isn’t hacking - all the big US labs have hacked someone now (https://www.felonybench.com/)and none have faced charges. It also isn’t copyright violations, they all seem equally guilty and equally uncharged.

The issue is openai and anthropic both make similar products in similar ways and yet only one has been designated a “supply chain risk” for entirely opaque reasons that based on timing are probably just “they didn’t kowtow correctly”.

The gov putting their finger on the scales for the company that showed the most deference to them is not a good sign for democracy.