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Contemporary discussion documents Q* cryptography rumors centered on alleged AES breaking and questions the authenticity of the supposed paper; it does not substantiate the stronger claim that rumors specifically concerned training on or testing against SHA hash inversion. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 12405

Source: Rumors about OpenAI Q* having broken cryptography are fake. Let me explain why. · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:11bc5f21d590d822ba5ef3efe21c84468d8e953a549fe03fa5807243c156e04b

There are currently rumors floating around about OpenAIs Q* or GPT-5 having broken AES-cryptography. ... No mention of block cipher mode. ... I’m sure this paper wasn’t written by someone from OpenAI.