Joke: OpenAI Destroyed the Library of Babel for Astra's Proofs
airkatakana · x · 2026-08-01
Reacting to OpenAI's release of the Astra model and its ten major mathematical proofs, a user jokingly claimed that OpenAI destroyed all the books in the 'Library of Babel' just to get these so-called 'novel proofs' in Astra's training data.
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