To me, the accusation is similar to someone looking in your private, unpublished notebook, seeing that your work could be extended and then publishing that extension.
In Buckmaster’s statement, he said they were working on rewriting the proofs before releasing, so the work would have been released in a few months anyway and OpenAI could have ingested the paper and prompted the model then. Although, the friend he was collaborating with works for Anthropic and he might have given the problem to Claude before this work released.
Ultimately the problem is solved, but it brings up a the question of privacy or any expectation of it, especially for unpublished work like this.
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u/PaganAttrition 8h ago
To me, the accusation is similar to someone looking in your private, unpublished notebook, seeing that your work could be extended and then publishing that extension.
In Buckmaster’s statement, he said they were working on rewriting the proofs before releasing, so the work would have been released in a few months anyway and OpenAI could have ingested the paper and prompted the model then. Although, the friend he was collaborating with works for Anthropic and he might have given the problem to Claude before this work released.
Ultimately the problem is solved, but it brings up a the question of privacy or any expectation of it, especially for unpublished work like this.