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points by grey-area 4 days ago | 0 comments
It’s perfectly plausible that unscrupulous people at OpenAI (and that’s the culture right from the top) searched user transcripts for relevant approaches to problems they were working on, or searched them for problems to look at, and nudged models based on that.

I agree it’s unlikely this happened by accident, or entered training data (though not impossible), but it could certainly be within the context agents were using when tackling problems.

We have no evidence either way, but they had all the data they would need to do this.

[–] RugnirViking 4 days ago
saw an interview from the mathematician involved, Tristan Buckmaster, on the numberphile yt channel, and he said he thinks it was more a case of people at anthropic leaking it in person to openai. Apparently with a hint about the area they were looking at it could have been easy (ish) to get the same approach, and indeed the paper openai released for Navier–Stokes uses their approach
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