Fuck AI

OpenAI is guilty of computer crime through massive unauthorized access to web servers to scrape their content, evading every kind of blocking attempt and crashing servers all over the place. This is the same thing Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for, but nothing seems to be happening to OpenAI. The content being public is irrelevant to this crime. You could have a public domain book in your bedroom, but if I break into your house and copy it, I'm a burglar even if I'm not a copyright infringer.

Separately from that, yes, the stuff in the math prompts was supposed to be private but OpenAI apparently trained on them anyway. OpenAI is a multi-tasker and can do more than one bad thing at the same time.

Well, one obvious example is licensing. You can have things that are presented online with a terms of service or an actual license that excludes certain uses.

One specific example would be GitHub and the sites like it. There are plenty of public facing code bases with licensing that would prohibit forms of reuse, like for financial gain.

And yes, this appears to be what the researchers believed to be private conversations, but are likely completely owned by the AI companies in their terms of service.