The breakthrough was on August 15th, but Tristan and Levent had been working towards it (with the help of various models) for the best part of a year. I person

The breakthrough was on August 15th, but Tristan and Levent had been working towards it (with the help of various models) for the best part of a year. I personally doubt that their work influenced the OpenAI result - OpenAI themselves say "While unlikely, we cannot rule out that..." - but that "we cannot rule out" is exactly the problem. If even OpenAI "cannot rule out" the influence of their usage of ChatGPT on this layer result then my discomfort at not understanding how my own usage of ChatGPT affects its training is magnified.