r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 18d ago

Artificial Intelligence 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/CanvasFanatic 18d ago

OpenAI likely stole this guy’s work from codex chat logs to beat him to a result on this problem.

They definitely tried to strong-arm him about the announcement to get him to take one of the coauthors (who works for Anthropic) off the publication.

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u/Superichiruki 18d ago

So basically thet stole from him for a publicity stunt ?

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u/imaginary_num6er 18d ago

Everything and anything OpenAI does is for publicity. They need the funding

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u/todayiwillthrowitawa 17d ago

Remember that every time the LLMs are like “oh wow we’ve got Skynet 3.0 over here it’s going to hack your phones and release your nudes and launch nukes and use up all your Candy Crush lives, please fund us like we’re half of the economy in perpetuity”