Microsoft engineer floats overlooked theory: OpenAI may have used math user sessions as context, not training data

JFPuget · x · 2026-09-09

Amid speculation that OpenAI trained a model on users' math sessions in record time, Microsoft's JF Puget highlights less-discussed technical possibilities: the sessions may have been used as context rather than to modify weights, or humans may have read relevant sessions to guide their own prompting. He stresses he's only discussing what's technically possible, not what happened—pointing out that weight updates are not the only path to improving LLM performance.

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