Yeah but if you’re just scraping it’s only a kb or 2 per request. Once or twice a day to check the price of an item would let you track thousands of items for years for just 8$
Basically he’s worried about gen pop having access to LLMs thinking only govts should have access to the technology for some strange reason. Probably because he works in defence contracting so he benefits directly from having that stance.
You can copy GPL code, modify it and use it personally and nobody is going to care unless you’re making tons of money. The entities pushing for MIT style licensing are massive and for profit.