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I trust my bank a whole lot more than I trust Anthropic

If I had a bank, I'd trust it too, it being mine. Most people don't have the luxury, though. In practice, they have to outsource banking to other people. And those other people are already quite likely to move around between both Anthropic and various banks in search of whomever will offer them the most economic benefits. It is not like a particular logo on their current business card is going to change their character. You do you, of course, you are already unique in having a bank you can call your own. But the fact remains that most people strongly believe that a person's trustworthiness is of the person, not the activity they happen to be doing at the time.

Come on, you know what I meant. You don't need to aggressively and intentionally misinterpret my point to make yours. I trust the company with whom I store my money to generate attestations of my age without leaking additional information more than I trust the company who has stolen every piece of human text ever written to train their chatbot.

> stolen every piece of human text ever written

Those who argue copyright infringement have a somewhat compelling claim, but stolen is a little out there. Especially since text I have written has provably never been stolen, making "every piece" impossible.

The underlying trouble with the copyright infringement claim is that it forgets that copyright was extended by the people as a construct to help foster innovation so it expected that the same people would ignore/revoke copyright claims where the product of its use is seen as a greater innovation. Copyright is but a human-created tool, not some natural law of the universe.

I understand also that not everyone sees AI as a worthy innovation, but societies do not function on the whims of a few people.

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