Should we also be concerned that other governments use slave labor (among other human rights violations) and will use that to get ahead?
Nobody did that.
> It's perfectly fine and accepted for a human to read and learn from content online without paying anything to the author when that content has been made available online for free, it's absurd to assert that it somehow becomes a human rights violation when the learning is done by a non-biological brain instead.
It makes sense. There is always scale to consider in these things.
No, their mention of "slave labor" is not a comparison to how LLMs work, nor an assertion of moral equivalence.
Instead it is just one example to demonstrate that chasing economic/geopolitical competitiveness is not a carte blanche to adopt practices that might be immoral or unjust.