Comment by JumpCrisscross
18 hours ago
> 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
So if Y happened (they stole it), why should we be happy about that? Why should we give them credit in the situation where they stole it? Why is that good for society?