Newton with 150 Hires? OpenAI Scooping Row Draws Leibniz Analogy
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-09
Reacting to the controversy over OpenAI's agent-produced Navier-Stokes proof, the author offers an analogy: had Newton learned a week earlier that Leibniz was nearly done and hired 150 people to race to publication, history would judge him differently. In the quoted reply, @AashishReddy argues OpenAI likely did nothing untoward and finds it extremely unlikely they spied on users' chat logs to scoop anyone. A substantive exchange on priority races in science and where AI labs should draw the line.
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