Joke Prompt Leads Codex to Generate Full Research Paper

A developer jokingly prompted Codex to build a recursive benchmark and write an arXiv paper about it. Surprisingly, the AI successfully generated a properly formatted and surprisingly coherent PDF research paper.

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