> I were to steal OpenAI's models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action

If GPT-5 were "open sourced", I don't think the vast majority of AI users would seriously object.

OpenAI got really pissy about DeepSeek using other LLMs to train though.

Which is funny since that's a much clearer case of "learning from" than outright compressing all open source code into a giant pile of weights by learning a low-dimensional probability distribution of token sequences.