The OpenAI Hired Mathematicians Meme

mmbronstein · x · 2026-07-17

Someone joked on Reddit that users in the math community actually believe OpenAI is "secretly hiring mathematicians to solve open problems" and then passing off the results as ChatGPT's own work.

This repost is essentially poking fun at this conspiracy theory-style imagination, serving as a classic AI community meme.

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