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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms (www.nature.com)
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The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October. The San Francisco, California-based maker of ChatGPT posted the preprints on the software repository Github.

Although some mathematicians celebrated the solution of longstanding problems, others took to social media to complain about being scooped. Some were incensed at what one physicist called a ‘slopocalypse’, even if the mathematical content could end up being formally correct.

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[–] 4 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

You're more patient than I am; I tune that nonsense right out.

But I bet if you isolated RW talking points, you'd find they're not even proper arguments so much as emotional triggers. Like a common argument is "That's socialism!" A good ghish gallop's arguments at least have internal validity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    well what I mean is they will throw out things and when challenged or fact checked then go to a new thing. sometimes not new but proved false long enough ago that people forgot. but yeah a lot is poorly done to begin with but its using large amounts and going to a new one if its disproved and actually ignoring that they ever used it. Oh and then attacking fact checking places as being political for pointing out facts or yelling at news entities for doing it.

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