Comment by johnsmith1840
12 hours ago
I mean, hasn't it always been this way? If something valuable is within reach and you disclose it, someone else might reach for it?
Just because the length of the arm is longer with an AI org doesn't mean it's somehow fundamentally a different system.
The future is that if you don't use AI your work is a lot easer to reach against someone else who has it.
That dude hand writing code with punchcards can be lapped by a 20yo with python, what's different?
The difference is no one writes punchcards so the comparison is inapt. It is more like supposing AI eats everything humans attempt to do. They will take your work as you are working on it, any interaction at all. It is meta-plagiarism, on another level.
AI didn't "take" anything. An openai researcher did?
The solution is also different to theirs? Literally no evidence of plagarism?
No evidence until there's an answer to the question of if prompt data from the other researchers was used to train the internal model.
I think the reasonable ethical question to consider when a company has an incentive to prove its value, and learns of the state of the art of a flashy research topic being close to a solution, and then throws loads of resources at trying to solve it first. I agree that "AI" didn't "take" but it's not an incomprehensible shortcut of criticism of the aforementioned behavior, not that precision should be avoided here.
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