Truth Check/9 October 2026
“Asaf Karagila: the OpenAI Partition Principle paper "should be issued a desk rejection for the quality"”
The claim as it travelled: 8 Oct 2026.
Holds
The claim holds against the page that produced it.
His post says the preprint is unclear and muddled and that he will not verify it in that state; he does not say the result is wrong.
- Checked Against
- karagila.org ↗Primary
- Read the Check
- OpenAI fired three safety researchers for a 'breach of trust' it will not describe, and pulled three of its 722 maths results. 300 of 719 are computer-checked.
Both sides of the OpenAI firing in their own words - the four-page letter and the 06:17 UTC reply - with no document behind either; "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results" against the repository's own history file; and the 12 November check, one prompt that tells you which of Anthropic's new rules touch your use of Claude.
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