It’s perfectly plausible that unscrupulous people at OpenAI (and that’s the culture right from the top) searched user transcripts for relevant approaches to problems they were working on, or searched them for problems to look at, and nudged models based on that.

I agree it’s unlikely this happened by accident, or entered training data (though not impossible), but it could certainly be within the context agents were using when tackling problems.

We have no evidence either way, but they had all the data they would need to do this.