Neither? Competitive academic researchers are susceptible to exaggeration and self-aggrandizing, and CEOs are that and also mostly psychopaths. I tend to think there isn’t systematic spying on researchers looking for breakthroughs. A lot of people are looking for the same things using similar approaches.
replyI mean the accusation is that they were using private ChatGPT conversations. Given the extent to of the gold rush and the long history of Silicon Valley stealing ideas, and arguing it’s not immoral, It almost seems like your making the exceptional claim that this is the one time where Silicon Valley didn’t use information that was at their disposal.
replySam Altman might himself be offended you would presume he’s not ambitious enough to cheat.
It seems that in this case OpenAI are suggesting that the researchers whose work they scooped were using OpenAI models with an account setting that allowed OpenAI to train on anonymized prompts.
replyIt seems that Buckmaster and Levant (who is an Anthropic employee) were rather naive in the amount of trust they had in OpenAI, with Buckmaster going so far as to contact OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck to discuss what they were working on and clarify that contrary to rumor this was a private collab.
> Given the extent to of the gold rush and the long history of Silicon Valley stealing ideas, and arguing it’s not immoral
replyNot just Silicon Valley but also OpenAI, specifically.
If Sam Altman tells you the sky is blue, you should double check. I certainly hope nobody believes him when he claims controversial things from which he stands to benefit.
replySam Altman has provided people with more generous usage than Claude or Gemini.
replyThere is no doubt ChatGPT is the most generous LLM provider!
Just because a guy is giving you free meth, doesn't make him generous.
replyMore like, "Who are you going to believe: a multi billionaire, or people competing for a million dollar math prize?"
replyIf you think mathematicians do this kind of research just for the chance to win a million dollar prize, please gtfo
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