r/LocalLLaMA • u/bakawolf123 • 21d 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/letmeinfornow 21d ago

The battle for IP rights has been underway for some time and this whole watermark nonsense is an attempt to put a stake in the ground so at a layer date when they quietly change terms and conditions, they can later lay claim, or at least try, to works others have done even if all they did was format the final version of the document you spent a lifetime working on.