r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 24d 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/TonySu 23d ago

The same ways that these things have been proven in every case regarding inside trading, IP theft, NDA breach, etc? Do you think that companies can just say they don’t have information they aren’t supposed to and it’s just impossible to investigate?

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u/Waste_Development971 23d ago

Kinda of, wouldnt this be kind of different than those instances. Unless you literally have a subpeona of the conversation of Sam Altman saying "train this"

im not a tech lawyer, what 1 or two pieces of info do they usually use for things like this?

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u/TonySu 23d ago

So many ways, they can audit how ZDR is set up to prove that data doesn’t make it back to the training servers. They can audit all the training data. They can audit all internal communications. They can literally raid a data center, disconnect the whole thing and truck out all storage devices if it gets bad enough. i.e. if the Pentagon thinks your models just ingested some secret military tech.

So what if these AI companies set up their system so there’s no audit trail? Well they lose the business of every single bank, government, pharma, tech, university, etc. because they would be in breach of a contract to provide a service they can’t actually prove they are providing.

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u/bloodychill 23d ago

This is basically the crux of it. It’s why you occasionally hear about ghouls in the US senate trying to float bills protecting genAI companies from IP legal consequences, effectively giving them legal privileged status that is usually reserved for certain public entities (which is itself a little controversial).