They did not steal, they used free information on the internet. And, they invested billions to turn that raw information into something useful, it did not have the same inherent value before being transformed into a language model.
A better analogy would be if I read an open scientific paper and used the result to design some device. I put up the money and effort to turn that work into something useful, but someone did the ground work and it was released for everyone to see.
A better analogy would be if I read an open scientific paper and used the result to design some device. I put up the money and effort to turn that work into something useful, but someone did the ground work and it was released for everyone to see.