'PR narrative control': OpenAI's $5M math donation draws skepticism
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-17
After a user praised OpenAI's $5M donation to a new Simons Foundation initiative helping mathematicians as pure goodwill, Gerard Sans pushed back: the gesture ignores a long history of questionable OpenAI actions and 'reads as corporate PR backlash narrative control more than good will.'
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