> The mathocalypse didn't happen because they found better training data somewhere.

There are reasons to suspect that OpenAI may have intentionally or unintentionally trained on chat logs from mathematicians--mathematicians who were actively using OpenAI to try to to solve the same problems themselves.[1] If those mathematicians were on the right track, and getting close to a solution, that could be classified as finding "better training data somewhere."

[1] https://cybernews.com/ai-news/openai-accused-stealing-anothe...

I’m not sure that’s a good argument that models will get good at novel brainstorming and research ideation. Where do you get scalable and high signal verifiable rewards for creativity and insight?