It is cute that anyone thinks intellectual property can be defended much longer. All intelligence will get folded into whichever models have the loosest restrictions on training on IP, and those models will become the smartest and most capable so everyone will use them.

But also like, do not steal IP you could easily have re-created again. Those involved in this scheme were doubly idiots because they stole the IP in brazen ways that were easily traced back to them. Do people really not understand that every corporate laptop and server these days tracks -everything- you do? That corpo paycheck comes at a price of no privacy of any kind.

California has protections on you owning whatever you can take in your brain and these days that is all anyone needs with LLMs being as powerful as they are.

> It is cute that anyone thinks intellectual property can be defended

This is probably what Liu told himself before taking actions that will destroy his life.