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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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Thanks! That really puts things into perspective. It's less impressive than I first thought, especially since it seems like spaghetti that needs a lot of untangling. 700 struck me as a huge number at first.

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