The most interesting bit in this interview for me is when Tristan Buckmaster explained how OpenAI stole his PhD students’ work: the students didn’t even have to use a LLM. All they had to do was apply for a grant for their work, and for whoever reviewed the grant to write the summary using ChatGPT, and hey-presto, OpenAI got the outline of their work in progress to feed to their model and front run them. I’m going to make my company’s CTO watch this. He thinks our software is safe because the company uses paid models and the contract says the material submitted to them won’t be used to train other models - and he believes it…