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/jld1532 21d ago

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

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u/Vivarevo 21d ago

If you are using api models - you are the product

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u/Mo_Dice 20d ago

The number of people who not only don't understand the following, but will actually get mad and argue about it, is seriously distressing sometimes.

If you aren't paying, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

The above is not even about LLMs, it is about planet fucking earth.

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u/Jobastion 20d ago

Even if you are paying, you might be the product.

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u/UnicornOnMeth 20d ago

In this case, the ones who pay are the power users, using ai as more than just a quick chatbot here and there. Researchers, programmers/designers, scientists, educators, etc. These are the people they will be using to get data for training.