While I don't agree with your comment being downvoted, I don't think distillation is either an "attack" nor is it "stealing". The idea that someone else gets to decide how I use tokens that I pay for is ludicrous.

Imagine if your casio calculator would come with a ToS that says you can't use it to develop a competitor calculator or any other tools. Or that your hammer can't be used to make other tools. Or, closer to the HN crowd, imagine MS in the 90s saying that you can't use their OS to build competing services to MS. They'd be laughed at and be split immediately if they tried that.

The only thing they can do is to refuse serving tokens (and even that's debatable, if we get to tokens being commoditised). But that's gonna be a game of whack-a-mole, and they know it.