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Mining the chats for "good ideas" would be untenable, but that's a different situation than data ending up in a training set for a problem that OpenAI also happens to be independently working on. Still, I opt out (business plan), and I don't know why you wouldn't.

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Why would mining chat transcripts for ideas be untenable? They already run a summarization model to auto-title the chat, and to run a bunch of safety filters, and presumably to score transcript quality for A/B testing and to collect more finetuning data. Seems like evaluating for open research questions and approaches would be pretty trivial extension of this, after all it’s kind of their core business model

Indefensible, not impossible. As you say it is quite technically feasible.

In what way are those two different? What makes the training data valuable if not to extract valuable information from it?

They sure as hell don't need it just to produce English.

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