>>“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models”

Other simpler words for this sort of thing are “IP leak.”

There’s some quite concerning issues burried in this rah rah PR post that seems like potentially the real story here.

Much more clarity is needed on what happened here beyond this eh, some strange stuff could have happened comment.

Another way of reading this is never give these models anything that’s not already public knowledge as otherwise OpenAI is admitting it could, potentially, steal your IP or idea. Thats quite scary for anyone in the business of IP generation and explains why the maths community seems quite upset today.

Feeding it your paper and asking for help (even just editing and grammar) now looks like a terrible idea.