Yes.

They are currently being sued for trade secret theft so it seems likely.

If true it could have quite an impact.

Everyone I think assumes training in the general “it affects the distribution” sense. But if it fishes precise novel insights out as alleged then it makes these products dramatically less valuable. At least the non zdr ones

I'm surprised solutions weren't trained off their Office365 or Google Docs..

It's possible that OpenAI was mining prominent researcher's chats for inspiration to tackle these problems, but it's also entirely possible the leak came from his collaborator's end as he works at Anthropic and I'm sure there's plenty of corporate espionage going on between those two. That would also explain why they didn't want to comment on the source of the prompt.

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915

And currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613262