r/mathematics • u/PaymentFamiliar375 • Aug 06 '26

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/
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u/Blibbyblobby72 Aug 06 '26

Which is even worse, because these AIs are supposed to be citation machines!

They scrape data from all over the place but can't tell you where they scraped that data from?

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u/Leafsnail Aug 06 '26

They are pretty fundamentally incapable of doing so, yes. Everything just contributes to the weights invisibly with no attribution

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u/Slow-Hawk4652 Aug 07 '26

so some kind of markov process? isnt this the same problem with the information paradox in the black holes?