[aithrowawaycomm]

Keep in mind those mathematicians were kept in the dark about the funding: it is incredibly unethical to invite a coauthor to your paper and not tell where the money came from.

It's just incredibly scummy behavior: I imagine some of those mathematicians would have declined the collaboration if the funding were transparent. More so than data contamination, this makes me deeply mistrustful of Epoch AI.

[refulgentis]

I can't parse any of this, can you explain to a noob? I get lost immediately: funding, coauthor, etc. Only interpretation I've come to is I've missed a scandal involving payola, Terence Tao, and keeping coauthors off papers

[Vecr]

Very few people were told the nature of the funding.

[Vecr]

Wait, I think I somehow knew Epoch AI was getting money from OpenAI. I'm not sure how, and I didn't connect any of the facts together to think of this problem in advance.