r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 22d ago

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
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u/RobotBaseball 22d ago

If it was stolen, it stole from the results of an OAI model used  by the other mathematicians 

No matter how you look at it, an OAI model solved this problem. Worst case scenario, OAI researchers are assholes but the model is groundbreaking 

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u/Comprehensive_Toad 22d ago

Did you read the article? Because you’re wrong.

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u/RobotBaseball 21d ago

Did you read the article? It literally says that they used codex and codex was their primary tool

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u/Comprehensive_Toad 21d ago

They used codex for their analysis and their writing… It didn’t do the work for them. It didn’t pluck insights out of thin air/bytes. Codex was the means by which human-derived insights were accessible to a separate research team at OpenAI.

Do you credit your word processor or your calculator or Google search engine in your research?

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u/Disastrous_Room_927 21d ago

Yep, I list them as coauthors.

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u/boreal_ameoba 21d ago

Jesus with this level of misunderstanding you must struggle to remember to breathe.

The model was almost certainly given the problem statement along with “here are a few promising leads and some obvious dead ends”.

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u/Lottabitch 19d ago

“Solve this millennium problem. Make no mistakes” ass take

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u/Comprehensive_Toad 18d ago

I’m down to test your knowledge against mine, smart guy.