Saturday, 18 July, 2026
Mirror, Mirror: Chamath Palihapitiya Slams US AI Giants for "Hypocritical" Piracy Complaints
By TechShots Studio
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has pushed back against OpenAI and Anthropic for accusing Chinese rivals of "distillation"—using American AI outputs to train their own cheaper models. Palihapitiya argued that US tech giants cannot ethically complain about data copying when their own foundational systems were built by scraping copyrighted internet data without permission, calling their sudden legal anxiety "hypocritical rather than principled."
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