Comment by shadowgovt

It is, perhaps worth considering that the reputational community might not care about the difficulty for the AI builder to verify pedigree.

If OpenAI's answer to this problem is "We can't know," then the rational conclusion may very well be "If I seek to have my reputation attached to the discovery of the solution, it is not sane to use the AI as an assistive tool, lest it scoop me on my own work using my own work. After all, they don't know it doesn't do that..."