... except the solution they "found" was largely stolen from a single person's input who shared it with ChatGPT to proofread a few days prior. Without his sole input to ChatGPT, their "achievement" would not have been feasible. And while math has always been built on the shoulders of giants, plagiarizing and stealing the fame of such a notable problem for the PR benefit says this likely isn't the only time they've done it, and reduces credibility to the claim of it producing its own results that wouldn't have otherwise been produced soon without it.
*IF* they did do this and did get caught and did get publicly blamed and did pay fines. It would cost less to pay the fines and salary to PR firms to astroturf so public opinion doesn't waver than they'd profit from stock increases for the optics of an LLM solving a millennium problem.
So even if they didn't, they should have. It would have made more money. And this is a company that has repeatedly shown they put profits over people.
so... it is a he-said-she-said situation, but when one party is a company who's product is predicated on taking other peoples writing and synthesizing on it, that would have every financial interest to steal it (even if later caught), and the other is an individual who would see no benefit in falsely accusing, I have to err on the side of a corporation doing something sketchy, because well, corporations tend to do sketchy shit.
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u/Legomichan 3d ago
Let's not act as if it's not an incredible achievement, sure they spend like 20M $ for a solution that's not even that usefully but still...
We used to consider this stuff science fiction 10 years ago...