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So where's that miraculous cure, then?
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2026
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The comic is based on nothing except someone being enthusiastic about AI and how he uses it for slop and imagining that he is somehow in the same boat as reputable medical researchers when people hate his slop output. He is not basing it on any actual results or backlash to results, just resentment over slop being disliked and trying to strawman up a sympathetic 'victim' for anti-slop sentiment.
I won't rule out GenAI as being somehow used, but most of what I've heard of has been 'other' AI techniques. GenAI might facilitate some scenarios I don't know, but either way the guy who slopped up a comic has zero in common with the imagined researchers in his comic. While there may be skepticism or accusations of stealing work (like the Math situation), I don't think the public at large would be eager to reject a medical breakthrough that is valid just because GenAI had a hand it it.
The math situation really, really, urgently, isn't what is reported on this message board. Not even close. Those dominoes are really starting to fall.
We're past the point where faffing about on a message board means anything.
It's not just this forum and have heard the more nuanced reporting.
So they had a near future good narrative where LLM was going to be a key tool is a long awaited mathematical breakthrough, but they heard about the mathematician effort and felt the need to steal the credit by somehow beating them to the punch.
In the process, they may have effectively stolen the work in progress, though that is admittedly may be less likely than other concerns.
The output was a sloppy mess that usually wouldn't have been considered ready for review, but they went with it anyway to get it out before the more considered work could complete. In pursuit of the narrative that AI alone could out speed and LLM augmented human effort, by skipping the quality that a human supervisor would have added.
They announced victory long before a human could verify the proof. Those working on that believe it likely to verify, but haven't completed that work. Again, very premature.
I think you will find VERY few people willing to argue Sam Altman isn't a cunt, probably including the man himself.