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For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

Why would you post a screenshot of text and not copy said text into the Alt field

Sam Altman is pretty universally acknowledged as the most dishonest person in Silicon Valley. None of this is surprising, given his history.

I'm aware of Sam's reputation. I wasn't expecting his underlings to be as dishonest as him, but in hindsight that was a silly thing to believe.

A huge portion of them fought to protect him after the board fired him. Company's rotten to its core

Why did you think Open AI would respect their customers intellectual property when their entire business model relies on them not?

In addition to everything else, if true it'd be enormously bad for business.

That assumes businesses and consumers are rational constructs. I think there is a lot of very good precedent that they are not—especially regarding consumer safety and whatever supposed impact its failure would have on said business.

Has that stopped them from stealing peoples intellectual property before? Advertising that they were stealing studio ghibli’s intellectual property didnt stop people from using OpenAI. What makes this different or worse? Do people respect academics more than artists?