Tristan Buckmaster's post, curated on eChai

OpenAI put its account on its own site before posting the announcement below, and this is Buckmaster reading that document twenty-four minutes earlier. The sentence he quotes is OpenAI's own. His statement that morning had said he did not know whether their data was used and that he was not accusing anyone of anything; this is the first thing he has put a question mark on directly.

Tristan Buckmaster, in mastodon.social

"Since August 28 we have been training a new internal model that has exhibited unprecedented performance in our benchmarks, including mathematics. This model's training is ongoing and its performance continues to improve."

Note that they are openly admitting they used training data from a period after we found our result. Is it ethical to use customer's data to try to scoop their customer?

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