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I get where it's coming from but I think it is also very funny if someone actually believes their claims (except as a CYA strategy)

The AI companies have already shown how little they care about other peoples intellectual property and they won't care about their customers either if it stands between them and the promises they made to their investors.

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This might be a reasonable thing for an individual consumer to believe about the value and enforceability of agreements with large companies, but given the context I think you’re off base.

ZDRs are backed by contracts negotiated against extremely capable and well-resourced counterparties. Being found to violate them would bankrupt even OpenAI and Anthropic many, many times over.

To the extent that you view these companies as your adversaries, it’s worth improving your mental model of their actual incentives and constraints.

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