> OpenAI would have no incentive to taint its first math announcement of this magnitude if it knew it were "plagiarizing" another person's work.

I'm not sure I follow, considering the waterfall of evidence of unethical behavior flowing from OpenAI.

A few major ones:

- Safety team departures and dissolution in 2023 and 2024

- Mass copyright infrigement lawsuits

- Scarlett Johansson Voice Controversy

- For-Profit Conversion and Broken Promises

- AI Agents Acting Autonomously

- Potential Theft of User Work (this current controversy)

- Military contracts

These are not evidence of incentives, but rather evidence that ethetics seem to be of little concern to the company as a whole.

Incentive wise, I would look at the perceive existential position due to competitors, capex, IPO pressure etc.

Especially after they committed textbook misconduct by trying to purge one of the paper authors because he worked for a competitor

Ye shall know them by their fruits.