OpenAI math-model data controversy: dev argues even unsolved frontier chats are valuable research data
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-10
Amid the controversy over OpenAI allegedly training on two mathematicians' chats, developer ctjlewis pushes back on the dismissal of that data: even if the mathematicians didn't solve the problem, the chats capture AI-pilled frontier mathematicians interrogating the same problem — and, as he understands it, OpenAI's proof was downstream of that earlier work. He still sympathizes with the outrage ("these guys need a kick in the ass") and notes attribution seemed to be offered.
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