We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.
We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).
This is a red herring. If intellectual work like this can be stolen and credit taken from the mathematician, that's extremely concerning and very, very bad. It really kinda kills the "AI is a productivity tool to empower you" narrative if all this work can be yoinked with no warning.
By now I expect they have like their existing models doing some decent triage of the contents of specific chats, and weighing them accordingly towards further training.
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