Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
TL;DR
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries.
Nauti's Take
Mathematicians demanding proof is progress for transparency: training data provenance is finally treated as a question of credit, not a technical footnote. The risk is that accusations without an audit trail poison the debate, because nobody outside can verify what actually went into the model.
Anyone working with unpublished material should treat chat inputs as publication.
Summary
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries.
Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and "dishonest" behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins of its training data. In a series of posts on Mastodon, mathematician Andreas Thom raised concerns that interactions he and his colleagues had had with the ChatGPT chatbot before OpenAI's triumphant announcement may have contributed to its success in the field.
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