The viral 'GPT-6 argued with experts and won' screenshot is dated in the future
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit post titled 'Sign of the times' shares only an X screenshot claiming 'GPT-6 Astra scored +80% on a physics benchmark, insisted the expert results were wrong — a team checked, and the model was right: 98%.'
The screenshot carries a future date and a future arXiv ID, making it a typical example of how unverifiable 'AI surpasses humans' stories spread.
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