> He told the BBC of his shock when he found what it had done, given his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain.
and,
> Critically, this hypothesis was unique to the research team and had not been published anywhere else. Nobody in the team had shared their findings.
Unfortunately, even if we wanted to, it might be impossible to attribute this success to the authors that it built upon.
By AI trainers, if not by the authors whose works were encoded.
public domain is a legal term meaning something like "free from copyright or license restrictions"
I believe in this thread people mean not that but "published and likely part of the training corpus"