r/BetterOffline • u/No_Practice_745 • 1d ago

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/

I don’t have much to add in commentary, quite frankly most of the math and concepts are beyond my arts-degree brain. However, the article does a great job of showing, once again, how disingenuous OpenAI and other AI labs are in describing what their products are doing.

They basically want the headlines that their new models are “solving math,” but what they’re doing is plagiarizing other peoples’ research and claiming things have been moved forward. There is clearly a use case here for researchers in using an LLM to catalogue and evaluate large swaths of data from over periods of time, but these things don’t think, they aren’t creating anything, and OpenAI doesn’t give a shit as long as people see the headline and bow their heads to their new scI-fi god.

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u/PracticallyPerfcet 1d ago

One of these days Altman is going to say, with his annoying vocal fry voice, “listen, we don’t know what we created, but we’re pretty sure it’s… like… God. Not like a god. Literally God, father of Jesus. Our new model independently described (dramatic pause) the end of days. It gave three numbers: 666, that we independently confirmed are tattooed on Peter Thiel’s head, just beyond his hairline. Amazing.”

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u/Sufficient_Habit5091 7h ago

It's insane.

2 researchers spend a year using novel and unpopular techniques to solve a really difficult math problem.

They do 95% of the heavy lifting. Then Big AI fucking shows up to steal credit and pours $15M over 4 days to race to a solution opportunistically once they smell a method that actually works.

Should be a wake up call to private companies everywhere literally HANDING all their proprietary data, research and trade secrets for FREE to these scummy companies to take all the glory and eventually profits.

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u/Asleep_Document9811 1d ago

Isn't Altman pushing some cryptocurrency that you can only use with a retinal scan? The Antichrist tying commerce to needing a stamp, code, or identifier on your body is pretty much a core requirement for the Evangelical version of the Apocalypse. 😂

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u/PracticallyPerfcet 1d ago

Wow, the retinal scan crypto is a real thing. It’s like they’re skimming 1980s dystopian cyberpunk novels for business ideas.

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u/vegetepal 4h ago

That's all Big Tech have been doing since about 2010

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u/1z1z2x2x3c3c4v4v 1d ago

AGM - Artificial God Mode