"In our view, these manuscripts are best understood as a form of raw research data."

They are staying on top of the exact formulations that spread like memes. I think this one was unfortunate. It's an analogy for a new type of thing that stops attempts to figure out what thing that is.

That said, uh, let's go? Let's see if OpenAI earns some goodwill here. It probably can't go worse than the last math drop!