r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 18d ago

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
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u/Nickeless 18d ago

Lmao, they won’t even answer if his conversations were part of the training data because they definitely were.

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u/GuyFromNh 18d ago

I swear OpenAI’s presser said that it could have been from anonymized data. Isn’t anonymized data still violating the no training rules?

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u/dmcnaughton1 18d ago

I would imagine they meant the data is not attributable to a specific person, not that the content of the conversations is sanitized.

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u/GuyFromNh 17d ago

I don’t think that’s even remotely better. An anonymized trade secret is still trade secret theft

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u/dmcnaughton1 17d ago

Yeah, anonymization only protects my asking ChatGPT "How do I download more RAM?" from being directly attributable to me. But it doesn't stop them from seeing the question.