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In a serious discipline like mathematics, this isn't just an asshole move, but a career-ending level of academic misconduct.
I wonder what is required for it to cross the line into criminal blackmail.
From OpenAI: > While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models This is the crux of it. If Tristan's work and insights were not used to train OpenAI models, then this just looks like a case of hyper-competitive academic sniping that has been going on for decades (check out Watson and Crick!) accelerated by AI as a tool. The fact that this is…
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That's absolutely right. Why the downvotes? If OpenAI are using but not acknowledging the work of others that's plagiarism. If they don't know for sure, but aren't performing due dilligence to make sure they aren't, that's also plagiarism.
It's not as simple. All our chats are being used by both labs for their future product (unless signed by ZDR). Where should the acknowledgement begin? Who should be acknowledged? The whole world? All the 2B users of AI? If I know person A is working on problem B. I am free to work on problem B too. Why should person A be limited to working on it.
Also brain raping* is not illegal in most jurisdictions.
But they're both deeply disturbing.
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you massively collapsed what AI companies have been doing by comparing it to old internet-scraping. Facebook flat-out admitted that they scanned copyrighted books for their AI. The image generators most definitely trained on copyrighted images.
Anthropic too, and evidently others. Amazon were recently confirmed to be doing the same thing: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-...
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It seems exceptionally unlikely to me that OpenAI would be "reading user prompts". More likely is a leak somewhere else. Obviously Anthropic/OpenAI are engaged in espionage stuff with each other. I am guessing Levent just mentioned something to someone at Anthropic and it got out.
why is this downvoted? do people really think OpenAI is snooping at people specifically? like they are looking for good leads into new problems or ideas and they found this guy's codex thread and used it? come on man, even for conspiracy theories this is stupid.
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I'm stunned that people are taking this accusation as a fact. OpenAI is no stranger to rivalry with Anthropic but 1. it's not like user data is sitting around on some kitchen table somewhere and 2. I consider OpenAI to be as economically motivated as any other actor in this space and playing around with user data like that would destroy their business. There are things that Buckmaster alleged and things that he specu…
> The entire training data thing is speculation. I think it's safe to assume AI labs DO train on your data and it's very hard to prevent that. I've just checked my inaptly named "Help improve our AI models" toggles. The toggle on the Claude settings had magically turned on. I asked about how this can happen. Claude says they show re-consent modals when terms change, and it is a "real and fairly common pattern" to re-…
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I'm stunned that people are taking this accusation as a fact. OpenAI is no stranger to rivalry with Anthropic but 1. it's not like user data is sitting around on some kitchen table somewhere and 2. I consider OpenAI to be as economically motivated as any other actor in this space and playing around with user data like that would destroy their business. There are things that Buckmaster alleged and things that he specu…
I am stunned anyone is giving OpenAI the benefit of the doubt
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Oai denies looking at prompts but doesn't deny training on them.
if they do not deny training on them, they can't deny plagiarism.
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Uh but here we have non-academics at for-profit companies playing politics, and the academic they're threatening being kind and overly generous?
In math we have a thing called a "scoop"; another mathematician publishing a result that beats yours before you published it. The scooper hardly acknowledges the scoopee unless the methods used were orthogonal. The scooper gets the good journal and the scoopee's paper is usually one tier below. It seems like OpenAI heard of the rumor and then scooped them because their internal model is better/they have more compute.…
Imagine if OpenAI opened up a high frequency trading arm and suddenly stole all the prompts and research that other HfT firms are doing through OpenAI tools and start making bank based on that . Wouldn’t that be straight up insane?
The accused Sebastian Bubeck has denied the allegations on Twitter[0], and various other OpenAI employees[1,2] seem to be mocking another Anthropic employee voicing support for Levent[3]? Things are getting messy. [0] https://xcancel.com/SebastienBubeck/status/20972141224714323... [1] https://xcancel.com/polynoamial/status/2097215233119211902 [2] https://xcancel.com/danintheory/status/2097214838003138603 [3] https://…
Wow this is just bullying, it's insane that we are letting these people be in charge of the transition