The first paper solved used a novel method that a small academic team had developed in chat sessions with both anthropic and openAI. One allegation is that anthropic started working on that problem and openAI got word and worked on it as well. They then deployed over $10m of internal token spend to solve it. When the researchers confronted openAI about their use of the same novel method they had explored which seemed an implausible coincidence, openAI couldn’t deny the private chats had entered the training data for the model. What’s it called when an employee gets hired at a competitor to exfiltrate proprietary data or methods? It’s called corporate espionage and theft. Why is it ok for an LLM to intercept and integrate private messages and the conceptual messages?

The fact that this history will be quickly forgotten by the public shows why the incentives of the Labs to behave unfairly is too great.