> We should be happy that they’re stealing people’s work?
No. We should credit that work is being done that otherwise may not be. I'm not defending OpenAI. I'm defending AI in general, something both OpenAI and Buckmaster (and his co-author) used.
No, I did not. If someone says either X or Y happened, they didn't say X happened.
My exact statement: "Either by OpenAI on its own, OpenAI stealing another's work and finishing it or a researcher using AI to iterate more rapidly than a human alone could" [1]. (Either X, Y [a and b] or Z. An Oxford comma could have helped.)
Yes, let's lie and call something stealing, then pontificate about morality.
At worst what OpenAI did was inconsiderate, but not referencing prior work is a minor academic sin. This is especially the case when AI is not playing the vanity game that seems to so inflame some mathematicians.
> We should be happy that they’re stealing people’s work?
No. We should credit that work is being done that otherwise may not be. I'm not defending OpenAI. I'm defending AI in general, something both OpenAI and Buckmaster (and his co-author) used.
You literally said they _stole_ the work. Why should we give credit to that?
> You literally said they _stole_ the work
No, I did not. If someone says either X or Y happened, they didn't say X happened.
My exact statement: "Either by OpenAI on its own, OpenAI stealing another's work and finishing it or a researcher using AI to iterate more rapidly than a human alone could" [1]. (Either X, Y [a and b] or Z. An Oxford comma could have helped.)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671523
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No one owns mathematics. It's not covered by IP law.
It's immoral to steal someone's research. Quite sad that you don't believe that.
Yes, let's lie and call something stealing, then pontificate about morality.
At worst what OpenAI did was inconsiderate, but not referencing prior work is a minor academic sin. This is especially the case when AI is not playing the vanity game that seems to so inflame some mathematicians.
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