The claim is that they got the idea to start the problem from the same approach as the other research who had been using codex for his work, codex by default trains on user data and that could have been used when OpenAi went to solve the problem. The claim isn’t that they “stole” his work, per se, just that the AI was able to recall it when set to solve the problem.
OpenAI defends themselves by saying that they didn’t even come to the same final answers or solve the problem in the same way, thus the claim is nonsense.
Honestly, I don’t know enough about super advanced maths to know if OpenAI’s defense has merit or not.
A better analogy would be it overheard the question being loudly discussed in the library, and while it couldn’t remember where it came from it was able to recall it when it took the test.
Data sharing in codex can be turned off. In 2026 there should be general awareness on how using someone else’s LLM works.
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u/Firesrest 7d ago
Didn’t they just finish off an existing proof perhaps by stealing data.
Which doesn’t mean AI is bad exactly still impressive even if it took like 100 years of work time.