> OAI tried to share, but didn't want to share with an Ant employee
Why does OpenAI get to dictate who Buckmaster can claim co-authorship with?
> I find their reaction childish
OpenAI may have, with full plausible deniability, taken Buckmaster’s work and passed it off—in substantial part—as their own. (Fitting into a fact pattern of them having tried to do the same with Apple.)
There is a material takeaway for anyone who does creative or otherwise unique work from this. (Which is unfortunate. Whatever happened here, AI clearly accelerated the discovery process.) For anyone else, I agree it’s just drama.
More like OAI needed someone like Buckmaster's stamp of approval. They know they can't get Tao's. Now they won't be able to get Zoroa's. You have to hope the rest of the guys they didn't know to cite will readily give up honour and dignity
It doesn't seem like there's anyone at OAI who knows much about the problem they are solving. Seems like CS theorists or algebraists* trying to own the pros by driving a car that's beyond their skill level. For one, they didn't cite the guys that B&A based their work on.
*It would be most fair to say there are no analysts on board, nor are they likely hire any soon; those are the least impressionable people in math. Applied math PDE elves who hadn't already left on the world-model boats would have jumped off around the time that eg Ilya did because they wouldnt have been able to stand the three Bs pretending to be experts in fields they imagine to be "adjacent".. like Public Relations
> OAI didn't try to claim Buckmaster's work as their own
We can't say this until we have more information on what the OpenAI researchers prompted their model with and to what degree Buckmaster's work was fed into its training data, either by Buckmaster himself or by his co-author.
Why does OpenAI get to dictate who Buckmaster can claim co-authorship with?
> I find their reaction childish
OpenAI may have, with full plausible deniability, taken Buckmaster’s work and passed it off—in substantial part—as their own. (Fitting into a fact pattern of them having tried to do the same with Apple.)
There is a material takeaway for anyone who does creative or otherwise unique work from this. (Which is unfortunate. Whatever happened here, AI clearly accelerated the discovery process.) For anyone else, I agree it’s just drama.