Skip to content
LLMMedium

OpenAI Pulls Three AI-Generated Math Papers Over Sign Error

Occurred
Oct 14, 2026
Published
Oct 14, 2026
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

TL;DR OpenAI withdrew three of its 722 AI-generated math manuscripts on October 7 after a sign error in a Weil-classes proof collapsed the argument. The flaw cascaded into two dependent papers, including the rational Hodge conjecture for ... (report_number: 8118)

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: OpenAI's AI-generated math papers contained errors leading to withdrawal, representing a notable failure in AI text generation.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

Visit source