Now think about a future where even asking gets you a refusal and silently put on a list. A future lawsuit could even force them to submit historical chats as evidence for projects that people have written or are writing now that they think they are getting away with because the llm isn’t currently refusing.

Right and at first people won't mind, but eventually they will not be able to help themselves enshittifying. Which is why I'm big on open weight models. I hope in 2031 there's a giant Mac mini sitting in my office running one.