If anyone is interested, here are the addresses, from the OP link:
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Unfortunately, they all have 0 BTC, except for the DEEPSEEK one.
I don't think this is a properly setup experiment.
Good catch! Perhaps Matteo shared the wrong addresses. Seems like an amateur move to set all this up and then not fund the addresses with BTC at all. Seems weird if it's just attention seeking or some other motive behind it.
Why lie though? Anyone could have checked (which obviously someone had) so what would be the point of this? Maybe it was really just an honest mistake.
I had a thought that maybe sharing the address would motivate others to invest in this research he is doing but then I realized if people do send out bitcoin to the researcher's addresses, the bitcoins might be stolen by him before AI tech companies do lol. Certainly if someone brought this experiment up and asked for some donations, no one would have believed him and this would end up in a BEWARE post.