<![CDATA[TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now]]>TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now

Like honestly, if they win a Millennium Prize, $22.5M expended for a $1M payout is just all of the AI ecosystem in one story

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/b38f8b33-26b7-4e10-b49b-a4be3c9554de/til-openai-spent-22m-plagiarizing-someone-else-s-math-paper-and-brute-forcing-a-proof-and-istg-i-cannot-stop-laughing-right-nowRSS for NodeFri, 11 Sep 2026 16:13:03 GMTWed, 09 Sep 2026 03:15:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:39:20 GMT]]>@mattmay Levent Alpöge being employed at Anthropic is somehow even funnier.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/117240650847407109https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/117240650847407109Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:39:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:37:06 GMT]]>@mattmay OpenAI said they won't claim it lmao

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/117240642057394333https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/117240642057394333Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:37:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:33:28 GMT]]>@mattmay was that the Nature puff piece using Navier-Stokes eqn? The lack of peer review gave it a bad smell 🐀

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/peterrenshaw/statuses/117240627753417692https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/peterrenshaw/statuses/117240627753417692Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:33:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:28:29 GMT]]>@mattmay note that 22M is only in inference, it does not count any of the investments in RD or in training.

And it is based on relatively optimistic rating of subsidization. The real cost is probably far larger. Like one order of magnitude larger.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Di4na/statuses/117240608180410764https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Di4na/statuses/117240608180410764Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:28:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:11 GMT]]>@mattmay@mstdn.social big companies spend $300-500M yearly on marketing, OpenAI is not different, they throw $22M, plagiarized mathematicians, and brute-forced the solution to install in people mind that chatGPT has surpassed the smartest human in Math, one of the foundational disciplines to understand the universe. It was a really good marketing move, work of the devil, as most marketing is…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M22SRPTACKZ0H7J4YQN8MAXHhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M22SRPTACKZ0H7J4YQN8MAXHWed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:57:31 GMT]]>@mattmay This would just make your post worse, but some people have estimated that the true cost of this nightmare is 30 times larger than the official API cost. This would make $600M…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/antoinechambertloir/statuses/117240486376100395https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/antoinechambertloir/statuses/117240486376100395Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:57:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:00:27 GMT]]>@mattmay
I knew there had to be some bullshit behind their marketing news about this.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.tacoma.community/users/justin/statuses/117239318271531401https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.tacoma.community/users/justin/statuses/117239318271531401Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:00:27 GMT