I agree. It’s the same specious argument that equates a human experiencing a work, be it art or code, with AI training on that work.
I wanted here to write a more detailed rebuttal, but I ended up deleting it all. I don’t think people like antirez can be swayed. They’re committed to the grift, or at the very least are in comfortable enough economic circumstances not to care.
I believe they were attempting to link to https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/454 a paper titled How to Win the Clone Wars: Efficient Periodic n-Times Anonymous Authentication.