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Multiple readings OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings The System From Nowhere Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Development 5d ago
OpenAI math research misconduct allegations

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

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫
“OpenAI claimed their products have solved several complex math problems, so what’s the issue? OpenAI just took credit for work done by humans without proper citations. When people in my field do that, they get tenure. Hahaha Red more: www.scientificamerican…” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Damien Williams BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 Eileen Clancy 🧿 +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Also getting really tired of people just uncritically repeating the "AI math breakthrough" thing without referencing the responses from the math community alleging misconduct and outright theft and plagiarism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say archived: archive.ph/JCl4g”

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“OpenAI claimed their products have solved several complex math problems, so what’s the issue? OpenAI just took credit for work done by humans without proper citations. When people in my field do that, they get tenure. Hahaha Red more: www.scientificamerican…”

6 experts discussed this · 48 posts
Timnit Gebru: We even DEFINED what language models are in our paper and gave their history.
Timnit Gebru: Emily Bender is a more patient person than me and has written a Frequently Unasked Questions about this. I have seen a whole bunch of people saying this like its some gotcha talking point they've a…
Timnit Gebru: These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE…
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 5d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · CJ
“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“I understand. But the technology is in this case not even helping you, because it is giving you slop and not real knowledge and understanding. Maybe this blogpost is more accessible? irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eileen Clancy 🧿 Abstract Tesseract

“I understand. But the technology is in this case not even helping you, because it is giving you slop and not real knowledge and understanding. Maybe this blogpost is more accessible? irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”

4 experts discussed this · 40 posts
Iris van Rooij: Hi @vascobrazao.bsky.social, going to share some things in thread :) bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: “The latter demonstrates nicely the core flaw of LLMs, i.e., they cannot read and summarize, because they have no understanding or knowledge.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 5d ago
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system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

7 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Jeffrey Vagle, Baldur Bjarnason
“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…” evidence ↗
7 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle Baldur Bjarnason
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“And note how Democracy Now! lets MIRI — a group started by Eliezer Yudkowsky — dismiss critics from people who aren’t “close” to the technology, even as the heads of these companies keep insisting they are passive observers to the thing they’re building. ma…”

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What remains unresolved or contested.

““The System From Nowhere” https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/ > But the first question to ask isn't "why did the model do that?" The question is: what human decisions optimized the model to do that?”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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15 experts · 106 posts · 6d ago
sarah jeong Anil Dash Kate Klonick evacide Pwnallthethings Eileen Clancy 🧿 Michael Hoffman e.w. niedermeyer
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“everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
sarah jeong: lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished …
sarah jeong: everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.
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3 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll
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“how do we report feedback? and is there a mechanism to opt out of it for "rudeness/swearing" while still maintaining for "clearly off-topic/trolling"?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): oh hey, genuinely, thank you @aaron.bsky.team, just had someone sealioning in my mentions who doesn't follow me, I don't follow them. in a conversation about AI use and bugs in popular AI tools, th…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I didn't have to lift a finger, the off-topic trollbait just got neatly swept away, and the discourse was much improved, and had I not been specifically paying attention to live notif feed I might …
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4 experts · 5 posts · 6d ago
Timnit Gebru Luke Stark Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿
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“I'm confused what is happening though. Is the AP Style Book telling its own newspaper not to do this?” evidence ↗
Luke Stark: Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
Eileen Clancy 🧿: This is huge! The AP Stylebook is the No. 1 guide for U.S. news outlets. Congratulations, you helped to make this happen. @emilybender.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @fractalecho.bsky.social…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 19d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Jeffrey Vagle
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“Are you required to use your work computer for work?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
James Grimmelmann: I regret to say that a great deal of legal scholarship is not good writing under this standard. That still doesn’t mean we should use AI to “read” it, but it’s harder to uphold standards when they …
Jeffrey Vagle: And yet Adobe WILL NOT STOP filling half my screen with offers to do so whenever I open a PDF.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 19d ago
Lilly Irani Eileen Clancy 🧿 B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“I'm on the bus. The driver sees the woman in front of me duck down and asks her, ma'am are you good? She looks up, and then says yes. Drivers do more than drive. Things a #waymo can never do becaus…” evidence ↗
Lilly Irani: I'm on the bus. The driver sees the woman in front of me duck down and asks her, ma'am are you good? She looks up, and then says yes. Drivers do more than drive. Things a #waymo can never do becaus…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: I'm on the bus. The driver sees the woman in front of me duck down and asks her, ma'am are you good? She looks up, and then says yes. Drivers do more than drive. Things a #waymo can never do becaus…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 16d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“I wonder if it's LLM written, they fired a bunch of their newsroom” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eileen Clancy 🧿: This is embarrassing. Local fire stories are important to get right. If a fire story has this many obvious errors of fact, what other pieces are wrong? C'mon, @latimes.com.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I wonder if it's LLM written, they fired a bunch of their newsroom
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