Comment by simianwords
3 hours ago
why is this downvoted? do people really think OpenAI is snooping at people specifically? like they are looking for good leads into new problems or ideas and they found this guy's codex thread and used it? come on man, even for conspiracy theories this is stupid.
> https://openai.com/policies/how-your-data-is-used-to-improve...
They explicitly say that they use your "content" to improve their models. Considering they practically have infinite compute at their disposal, why is it surprising that they would look for juicy data in there to make them look good ? When they ingested basically the entirety of human knowledge without regard to the rights of others, when they burn books by the thousands, when their relentless barrage of bots have rendered the Web borderline unusable, why would they stop at that line ?
this is the stupidest comment. if they said it then why doesn't the customer read it and just turn off sharing? its literally a settings toggle
You’re always going around insulting people. Does it make you feel powerful?
Is it really hard to believe the people who would consume all the world’s data regardless of copyright and norms and permissions would not respect the data privacy of a user?
this is a highly marketable problem and specific teams at OpenAI were aware of specific competitor efforts. I would be surprised if this were happening on a large scale, but
1. Less than a hundred people in the world are working at this problem, 2. A significant fraction of those happen to work at competing hyperscalers, 3. Those hyperscalers repeatedly show themselves not to take user privacy seriously
I'm not sure what your points 1 and 2 have to do with anything. Both directionally increase the probability of hyperscalers also finding the solution independently.
> Those hyperscalers repeatedly show themselves not to take user privacy seriously
where? Any examples?
Yes that sounds like something openAI would do to me. Not that they’re just looking through random professors chats but they heard buckmaster made progress on navier stokes and decided to read his chats.