This is disgusting, how can anyone steal from this poor defenceless corporation and sleep at night. You are a scumbag if you think stealing from them is acceptable. They stole all their data fair and square.
Google calls this illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, a somewhat loaded position given that the LLM was built from materials scraped from around the Internet.
arstechnica.com
Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.