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		baobun 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my en... All user accounts are also customers. Some are paying with data and contributing to metrics going up.

DANmode 31 days ago [–]

That’s not how words work.

All users are stakeholders.

They’re emphatically not considered customers.

We can disagree with that, create legal protections for those people - but that doesn’t make them customers to OpenAI, Anthropic, et al.

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