Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of Data Theft
A mathematician has accused OpenAI of unethical behavior and lack of transparency regarding the data used in its recent mathematical breakthrough. Andreas Thom, a researcher in non-sofic groups, claims that interactions he had with the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT may have contributed to the success of the company's model in his field. OpenAI acknowledged that their result built heavily on previous…
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- Thom accused OpenAI of using his interactions with ChatGPT as part of the training data.
- OpenAI acknowledged previous work by Thom and Gábor Kun, but did not disclose their contributions.
- Non-sofic groups are mathematical structures that cannot be approximated by finite ones.
Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
The Verge AI · 10 September 2026
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