Mathematician Alleges OpenAI May Have Trained Astra on His 20-Year Conjecture Work
gklambauer · x · 2026-09-11
Mathematician Andreas Thom presented evidence on Mastodon suggesting OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun worked on Gromov's soficity conjecture — one of ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra solved. Thom is a leading expert who spent two decades on the problem. Valerio Capraro says if true it goes beyond attribution disputes; Schmidhuber frames it as potential 'automated plagiarism.' The allegation remains unverified.
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