OpenAI Threatens Mathematicians Like Mafia

sam altman might actually be the most evil tech CEO of all time, do you all have any idea just how high that bar is? Lmao wtf, OpenAI is threatening mathematicians like the mafia. "Nice career, shame if something happened to it" Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the "closest humans to the problem". I declined both offers. I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice.”

A screenshot of an X post jokes that Sam Altman and OpenAI may be the most evil tech figures ever. An embedded post compares alleged pressure on mathematicians over mathematical results to a mafia threat, quoting “Nice career, shame if something happened to it,” followed by a longer account of disputed authorship and intimidating remarks. The meme is used as a sarcastic reaction to rumors that OpenAI took or suppressed a mathematical breakthrough. EN: A screenshot of an X post jokes that Sam Altman and OpenAI may be the most evil tech figures ever. An embedded post compares alleged pressure on mathematicians over mathematical results to a mafia threat, quoting “Nice career, shame if something happened to it,” followed by a longer account of disputed authorship and intimidating remarks. The meme is used as a sarcastic reaction to rumors that OpenAI took or suppressed a mathematical breakthrough.

• @gentoomemes / 21919 2026-09-08