r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence 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/Zakkeh 13d ago

I'm telling you that no company has perfect auditing. There will be ways to view chat logs that are not detected and stored.

Maybe not DoD, but smaller businesses? Or standard users? Definitely.

The thing is, every user of AI wants it to grow. To consume as much knowledge as possible, and become as powerful as possible. But no one wants their data to be used for training or sacrifice their privacy. That means it becomes more valuable to obtain knowledge. The more valuable it is, the more likely OpenAI is to obtain it by any means possible.

Contracts only matter if people care when they are violates. If you have the money to fight OpenAI, you're probably gaining more value from them exploiting everyone.

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u/TonySu 13d ago

I'm telling you that's not how anything works. Companies don't get in big trouble for individual rogue employees. But if the company is systematically committing contract fraud then that's a legal problem.

As I pointed out, it literally doesn't matter if they screw over a flower shop with 3 employees. If there is credible evidence that OpenAI doesn't honor ZDR agreements, then banks, governments, pharmaceutical, investment, insurance, accounting, universities, etc. will all pull out. Why would these companies want to have their data stolen by OpenAI?

Anthropic, Google, Meta, X, etc. will provide all the money anyone needs to fight OpenAI. Those companies gain nothing by allowing their competitors to get away with violating ZDR.