Let this be a warning to everyone that if you want to use AI assistance in secretive work, do so with local AI. If you must use a hosted AI, ensure your inference provider is not also the foundation model provider.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
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While this general story has its shape. The line at the end here…
AI is stealing human discovery.
Is striking in just how obviously true it’s been the whole time. It’s the business model, plain and simple.
I hope this story highlights this better for some. But also, it’s frustrating that any of this is new or surprising to anyone.
It's one thing to notice OpenAI is stealing public content, but in this case it's suspected of using info that people prompted ChatGPT with privately.
Oh I didn’t know that! Thank you!
So the mathematicians were using ChatGPT in their work and that’s how they think it was scooped?
Thoigh to be fair, this doesn’t change my tune. That we aren’t all presuming every interaction will be part of future training data is bonkers to me.
That’s exactly the kind of data that turned LLMs into chat interfaces. And where else are AI companies going to get human generated text and feedback?
The extent to which the keys of the world have been handed over to a skynet system is fucking crazy!
Do people consider conversations with LLMs private? I don't think there is actual guarantee which protects the conversations. ..are people that naive?
Yep.
The era of Google and big social media did real harm IMO. I suspect we used to have more scepticism around this sort of thing (dunno though). But getting addicted to things sure as hell is a good way to get you to ignore their problems.
The era of desktop computing really is gross in so many ways once you take a step back.
I know that this is unrelated, but I'm glad that nitter is back.