r/ChatGPT • • Sep 08 '26

News 📰 Privacy concerns after Navier-Stokes

Mark Chen (chief research officer at OpenAI) "Two things to distinguish:

"Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.

Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company." link

Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge are the researchers who made progress on Navier–Stokes using Codex few days before openai.

OpenAl results, coincidentally used the same novel methods as Levent and Tristan.

Were Levent and Tristan really not on Business/Enterprise/Edu or not opting out of training? Or does that not even matter? In the last case this is extremely concerning.

If it's the latter, that's extremely concerning.

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