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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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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think a mathematician with no skin in the game should just make a big post saying "All 700 are wrong, no I am not going to show my work, if you disagree prove which one you think is right" put the ball back in OpenAI's court.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Maybe instead they should just generate slop counterproofs for every single one. Then everyone defending OpenAI's dump will have to either read through all the shit or acknowledge that it's not worth the effort to verify slop.

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