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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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I think OpenAI has retracted some of them already. For OpenAI it’s a really low-risk thing: if it’s wrong, then just retract the paper. If it’s right though, the fame all goes to OpenAI. Meanwhile, people who spent their whole life researching on this topic, needs to confirm this manually for OpenAI.
It's a DDoS attack on human capacity, effort and attention, always has been.