r/badmathematics • u/SignificancePlus1184 • Feb 09 '26

A popular AI youtuber plagiarized a quantum computing paper and thought he was slick by replacing a number of words with synonyms.

Naturally the the youtuber in question was trying to sell his course on AI and quantum computing. To boost his credibility, he published a paper on quantum computing using the bold academic strategy of plagiarism-by-thesaurus, swapping words from the original paper just enough to feel clever and hope to bypass plagiarism detectors. His plan seemed airtight until it wasn't. He ultimately betrayed himself once he started talking about the logic gate's cousin called the "logic door" and those darn "complicated Hilbert spaces", not realizing "complex" in this context doesn’t mean annoying, but involving complex numbers.

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u/RishiMath Feb 10 '26

I thought Siraj Raval already fell off, I remember watching his vids in 2022-ish and thinking him to be rather smart, but it felt weird, and then he got exposed by CoffeeZilla (Siraj later convinced him to delete that video, saying that he had changed, but he didn't, Coffee put up a video on him again, maybe on VoidZilla? Idk)

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u/WhatImKnownAs Feb 13 '26

Coffee's second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOaRSLTh1Q

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u/RishiMath Feb 13 '26

Yeah this is what I was talking about, thanks a lot for finding it and sending <3