However, we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training.
If by this you mean “OpenAI will not train on this data”, that doesn’t address the vast majority of the concern. If OpenAI is evaluating the model against the data, they will be able to more effectively optimize for capabilities advancement, and that’s a betrayal of the trust of the people who worked on this with the understanding that it will be used only outside of the research loop to check for dangerous advancements. And, particularly, not to make those dangerous advancements come sooner by giving OpenAI another number to optimize for.
If you mean OpenAI will not be internally evaluating models on this to improve and test the training process, please state this clearly in writing (and maybe explain why they got privileged access to the data despite being prohibited from the obvious use of that data).
If by this you mean “OpenAI will not train on this data”, that doesn’t address the vast majority of the concern. If OpenAI is evaluating the model against the data, they will be able to more effectively optimize for capabilities advancement, and that’s a betrayal of the trust of the people who worked on this with the understanding that it will be used only outside of the research loop to check for dangerous advancements. And, particularly, not to make those dangerous advancements come sooner by giving OpenAI another number to optimize for.
If you mean OpenAI will not be internally evaluating models on this to improve and test the training process, please state this clearly in writing (and maybe explain why they got privileged access to the data despite being prohibited from the obvious use of that data).