How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
What's happening
The government reviewed discussions with OpenAI (and Anthropic) before clearing a frontier model, but exact details of that dialog are unclear. Meanwhile OpenAI faces intensified legal trouble: news publishers including The New York Times accuse OpenAI of hiding or deleting searchable training data and billions of ChatGPT logs, and have filed motions seeking sanctions in a New York copyright trial. Reddit and Hacker News threads amplify the controversy, reporting claims that OpenAI misled the court about its ability to search training data and user conversations.
Why it's trending
Because publishers' motions and new reporting allege OpenAI concealed searchable datasets and logs while regulators and the government had been consulting on model safety.
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If the government signed off on a frontier model while OpenAI was allegedly hiding searchable datasets and billions of logs, maybe 'approved' means 'we talked about it' not 'we verified it'.
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Original sources7
- New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
TechCrunch AIJul 9 - this openai court story is starting to look ugly
i saw this and honestly this one feel like big mess. nyt and other news people saying openai told court for long time it cannot search training data / logs for their copyrighted stuff. but then looks like maybe they already did searches before, and also billions of chat logs were deleted or made not searchable. link:
r/artificialJul 12 - OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT saysHackerNewsJul 9
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