How do you know the lean is correct? You don’t bet the two trillion dollar company on “the ai said so”
Also, if a bug is found, all previosuly proven theorems can be reproven to immediately and conclusively find out if things went wrong somewhere
Of course there may be errors in lean, of course AI can take advantage of it, of course "carefully" is full of errors. So the only thing left is waiting to see if the result holds. And yes, it may take 30 years...
Making an ill-advised press release hardly dooms the company. Just like the hugging face incident hasn't doomed OpenAI.