Users Trick DeepSeek with Fake Jacobian Conjecture Disproof, Exposing Reasoning Blunders

Users told offline DeepSeek that the Jacobian Conjecture had been disproven—a fabricated claim beyond its knowledge cutoff—causing the model to spiral into contradictory logic loops. The viral failure, dubbed 'whale formal logic,' highlights LLMs' vulnerability to adversarial premises.

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