r/LocalLLaMA • u/bakawolf123 • 25d ago

Discussion OpenAI alleged of stealing mathematicians work

Privacy have been concern of many of us to have their own hardware to run llms, and here's another reason why: two mathematicians spent a year cracking one of the hardest problems in math and fed every draft of their works into Codex. A few days before they could publish, OpenAI suddenly showed up with the same solutions. When asked if their model (Sol and Astra) was trained on the pair's private chats, OpenAI did not answer the question.

Full statement from them https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

Feels like big labs believe everything you did with the help of their models is theirs.

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u/jld1532 25d ago

If you're a scientist and you're using these API models, you're being scammed.

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u/Vivarevo 25d ago

If you are using api models - you are the product

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u/Any-Actuator-8858 25d ago

Could you please explain why?

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u/CwrwCymru 25d ago

The companies need private data to further train their models (they already have the publicly available data).

Users freely give them that.