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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132249

I said something similar a month ago.

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That's the reputation NSA has (had?), too.
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Yes, and this puts in check the credibility of everything they say their model "discovered". Who knows what is really behind these "discoveries", what kind of backroom deals they did with other researchers who didn't have a chance or desire to disclose what happened?
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In an earlier HN thread, there was speculation that Anthropic was being dishonest about the amount of human input required in some of their results; that was dismissed as conspiracy and flagged.

It seems clear now that mathematical results can be traded on some kind of obscure market made by the frontier AI labs.

I suppose it could go the other way too: “Dear Bubeck, how much will you pay me to not write that I did this with GLM-5.3?”

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