"Is it ethical to use customer's data to try to scoop their customer?"

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Original text

Buckmaster questions the ethics of models trained during his research period

About this source

Later post quotes OpenAI's training chronology and raises a customer-data ethics question. This is a stronger inference than his original caveat, not proof that his work entered training.

Before the quotation

After his original statement, OpenAI discloses the training period and data caveat.

After the quotation

The chronology alone does not establish inclusion of his conversations or causation of the result.

Challenged the characterization

How this statement is classified

Later challenge and ethical inference; not direct proof that his material entered training.

Recorded on: September 10, 2026
Published here: September 10, 2026
People and groups discussed: OpenAI

Corrections to this statement

These notices correct our account of this statement.

Reporting correction

September 10, 2026

Correction to: Statement by Tristan Buckmaster

Previous language: The published entry was missing its source, topic and target links.
Corrected language: Restore the saved source links (Buckmaster questions the ethics of models trained during his research period), topic (AI Research, Scientific Credit and Integrity) and target links (OpenAI). The quotation and stance classification are unchanged.

A September 10, 2026 publication audit found that this published statement's relationship fields were empty even though the reviewed research record contained the links. This correction documents restoration of those recorded links. The audit did not establish the underlying technical cause.

This corrects our account of what happened.

Buckmaster questions the ethics of models trained during his research period

Later post quotes OpenAI's training chronology and raises a customer-data ethics question. This is a stronger inference than his original caveat, not proof that his work entered training.