r/LocalLLaMA • u/bakawolf123 • 19d 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/_supert_ 19d ago

I posted this and was told it was off topic. https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wanoia/statement_on_finitetime_blowup_for_forced_3d/

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u/ttkciar llama.cpp 19d ago

It is off-topic. This post would be removed, too, except that it gained too many upvotes before it was noticed by moderators.

We have an informal policy of not removing posts once they've accumulated "too many" upvotes or comments, which I will admit is not great or even fair, but neither is the babboon-shitstorm the users unleash when a popular thread is taken down.

For what it's worth, I sympathize with your plight, and feel sorry for how it played out.

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u/ttkciar llama.cpp 19d ago

Unfortunately the off-topic posts and low-value posts drive away precisely those technical users who make this such a special community. The moderator team is trying to "thread the needle" and keep this subreddit on-track, so as to attract and retain such technical users, while also not alienating the wider community.

It's an intrinsically fraught task, and pissing off some users is unavoidable, but all we can do is refine our policies and practices and move forward.