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Comment by agnosticmantis

“… we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training”

Ha ha ha. Even written agreements are routinely violated as long as the potential upside > downside, and all you have is verbal agreement? And you didn’t disclose this?

At the time o3 was released I wrote “this is so impressive that it brings out the pessimist in me”[0], thinking perhaps they were routing API calls to human workers.

Now we see in reality I should’ve been more cynical, as they had access to the benchmark data but verbally agreed (wink wink) not to train on it.

[0: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=agnosticmantis#42476... ]

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