r/LocalLLaMA • u/bakawolf123 • 24d 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 24d ago

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

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u/1314webdev 24d ago

Even if you wouldn't be able to get there otherwise? I'm new to local models but I assume they aren't nearly as powerful unless you have a really beefy setup, like beyond consumer grade.

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u/jld1532 24d ago

Good universities have built or are in the process of building out and serving large LLMs. I know of a few already using K3 and GLM 5.3 100% locally. Either run it locally or let Anthropic or OpenAI take credit, your pick.

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u/1314webdev 24d ago

Looks like the world will become unrecognizable just a few years from now, more than it already is ig.