“We can say categorically that it is impossible for Dr. Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the last two months to have influenced the system in any way, including training.”
“After investigating, we can say with full confidence that no user inputs past July 3rd could have influenced this system in any way.”
Buckmaster reached the key result on August 15, far after the training cutoff.
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It's baseless speculation and unfounded accusations of plagarism. OpenAI now categorically denies this: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/science/tristan-buckmaste...
“We can say categorically that it is impossible for Dr. Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the last two months to have influenced the system in any way, including training.”
“After investigating, we can say with full confidence that no user inputs past July 3rd could have influenced this system in any way.”
Buckmaster reached the key result on August 15, far after the training cutoff.