People found the original post so impressive they were saying that it had to be coming from cheating by looking at EXIF data.
The point of this article was to show it doesn't.
It got an unfair advantage in 1 (and say 0.5) out of 5. With the non-search rounds still doing great.
If you think this is unimpressive, that's subjective so you're entitled to believe that. I think that's awesome.
People accused it of cheating by reading EXIF data. They were wrong, it cheated by using web search. That makes the people that accused it of cheating wrong and this post proves that.
And is everyone forgetting that what OpenAI shows you during the CoT is not the full CoT? I don't think you can fully rely on that to make claims about when it did and didn't search
If you think this is unimpressive, that's subjective so you're entitled to believe that. I think that's awesome.