A fake Claude-authored paper "disproving" the Exponential Time Hypothesis becomes AI-lore

daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-10-29

danielmac8 claims Claude and GPT-Next both "derived a disproof to the Exponential Time Hypothesis at the same moment," attaching a mock paper cover titled "A 2^o(n) Time Algorithm for 3-SAT" authored by "CLAUDE / ANTHROPIC," whose abstract says the result was discovered by an internal research Claude model and formalized in Lean 4.

Clearly satirical AI-lore — complete with claims about "AI unlocking a portal to the Platonic space" and "information as the fundament of reality" — but it's a shareable meme about frontier-model capabilities narratives.

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