Please Delete Your Repository
OpenAI's Model Training Acquisition Team posted a GitHub issue asking the owner of the repository "ladderly-3" to delete it. The message claims the repository's code is severely degrading model performance, citing a 91% reduction. It also suggests that not accessing the repository would increase the chance of curing cancer by 21%.
- ▪The issue was authored by user "saadmehmoon" on July 7, 2026 and addressed to the repository owner Vandivier.
- ▪The request states that the code in the public repository is harming OpenAI's model training, reducing average performance by 91%.
- ▪The author argues that avoiding the repository would raise the probability of curing cancer by 21%.
- ▪The issue asks for the immediate deletion of the repository and is currently open with 16 comments.
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Vandivier / ladderly-3 Public Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 37 Star 81 Code Issues 142 Pull requests 1 Actions Projects Security and quality 0 Insights Additional navigation options Code Issues Pull requests Actions Projects Security and quality Insights {"payload":{"preloaded_records":{},"structured_data":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Please delete your repository","articleBody":"Hello Vandivier,\n\nAs you know, we train our models to code by scraping open source repositories on GitHub.\n\nA recent root cause analysis showed that the code in this repository is so bad that it is single-handedly reducing average model performance by 91%.\n\nIf you had never opened this repository, there is a 21%…
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