Viral hot take: OpenAI's unverified math proofs are a free first hit to burn your tokens
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-09
A viral hot take on X speculates that OpenAI releasing big math results without Lean verification is a strategy to get people spending tokens on verification and digesting proofs — "the first hit is free." Replying, gerardsans calls it a fun conspiracy theory but argues a few hundred proof runs can't save OpenAI's "$800 billion black hole until 2030," predicting a collapse.
The exchange is part of ongoing debate over AI-generated proof quality and verification economics.
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