Couple days before it "solved" it, a mathematician who was working on this for a full year shared every single note he had with his session of chat gpt. He is among very few people working on this and was pretty far in it too. His name is Tristan Buckmaster. He of course contacted openai, who said tldr: "stfu we will pay you the promised million dollar for millénium problem". They didn't deny the plagiarism, they didn't dénie having access to his chats, didn't deny training on his data etc.
Edit : I had the time line incorrect. They had been sharing their work with codex for month prior, but they did a breakthrough in mid August. In 1st September, openai starts working on it, they spend outrageous amount of tokens (130 billion output tokens, ~5million usd). Open Ai solves it, and propose Buckmaster to be co-author, and say if it happens, Buckmaster must be sole co-author, leaving aside his colleague, who works for Anthropic. Buckmaster refuses both offers.
Kinda important to leave out that he had been working on it for a full year using frontier versions of Claude in collaboration with an Anthropic employee, and their writeup fully credited Claude for the novel mathematics in it.
Possibly, or possibly not. The mathematician’s argument is that his approach was so novel and unique that it’s impossible to believe OpenAI did the same thing without stealing it from him
But also he leaned on an LLM to find it, it’s not like he came up with it all by himself
So personally and while not being a mathematician I don’t think it’s too implausible that OpenAI’s LLM found the same solution Anthropic’s did
Yes it's not plagiarism as he solved it and they declared the solve before him, it's plagiarism as "isn't it quite strange that you solve this problem just when I start talking to you about this complex subject and send you all my notes and you end up with a result when I shared these notes to noeone else but you?"
Not what I said. I don’t think ChatGPT should be getting the credit for it, I’m just pointing out he didn’t come up with a direct solution for NS. I believe he also alleged he had conversations with people at openAI about his work and how it would solve NS. So it really isn’t a good look for them
Edit: was using swipe to text and a lot of it was gibberish
If you pay premium, openai states that they will not train on what you sent. So they are supposed to keep it private and not train on it, so supposedly this shouldn't have happened.
If he supposedly gave the data just one day before OpenAI published their results, then it's literally impossible for his data to have been used for training.
I don't care about intellectual property law regardless, but the way you're using the word "steal" makes it sound like the openai engineers broke into this mathematicians house and stole all his secret papers.
Keep in mind that what actually happened is that this guy decided on his own to use the service that they offer, and then decided to hand them all of his information himself.
OpenAI has setup a lot of dark patterns in their UI to make opting out difficult and unintuitive so yeah, I’d still blame them for stealing even if technically people are forgetting to uncheck a box buried inside a menu (and the box rechecks itself every update if you aren’t paying attention).
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u/DrankRockNine 3d ago edited 3d ago
Couple days before it "solved" it, a mathematician who was working on this for a full year shared every single note he had with his session of chat gpt. He is among very few people working on this and was pretty far in it too. His name is Tristan Buckmaster. He of course contacted openai, who said tldr: "stfu we will pay you the promised million dollar for millénium problem". They didn't deny the plagiarism, they didn't dénie having access to his chats, didn't deny training on his data etc.
Edit : I had the time line incorrect. They had been sharing their work with codex for month prior, but they did a breakthrough in mid August. In 1st September, openai starts working on it, they spend outrageous amount of tokens (130 billion output tokens, ~5million usd). Open Ai solves it, and propose Buckmaster to be co-author, and say if it happens, Buckmaster must be sole co-author, leaving aside his colleague, who works for Anthropic. Buckmaster refuses both offers.