Mathematician alleges OpenAI's Astra may have trained on his unpublished soficity work
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-10
Mathematician Valerio Capraro relays Andreas Thom's detailed Mastodon post presenting evidence that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which Thom and Gábor Kun worked on Gromov's soficity conjecture — one of ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra solved.
- Thom is a leading expert on sofic/hyperlinear groups who spent two decades on the problem
- If accurate, this goes beyond attribution disputes into whether unpublished research conversations were used as training data
- Unverified, but adds a major allegation to the controversy around Astra's math breakthroughs
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