alt Hacker News> leaving aside the idea that OA might've used data from the researchers Codex sessions
Why leave that aside? That is _the_ story.
If a Chinese research lab did this we'd call it espionage.
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modeless • today at 8:10 AM
Because they didn't do that. Tristan doesn't specifically claim that they did, and Anthropic employees don't think they did either. https://x.com/_sholtodouglas/status/2097218240397410733
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But there's a bunch of people already in this thread calling that stuff unfounded speculation (which I disagree with), and my point is that even if that specific thing isn't true, OA's behavior here is obviously awful.
If they're going to try to beat researchers to discoveries like this it disincentives researchers to talk about their progress publicly, and basically breaks the ecosystem of scientific cooperation / discovery. It's also immoral.