OpenAI might have stolen another major proof
Mathematician Andreas Thom has accused OpenAI of training its 'Astra' model on his unpublished research regarding Gromov’s soficity conjecture. These allegations suggest that the company may have misappropriated intellectual property to claim scientific breakthroughs.
Why it matters
This raises serious ethical and legal questions regarding the training data sources for AI models and the potential for intellectual property theft in the tech industry.
Valerio Capraro on X: "BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were workin… / X
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
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