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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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[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Why is it ok that so many companies have put programmers in this position, but all the sudden it’s bad for mathematicians?

the former has just been normalized and tech bros are hard at work trying to normalize the latter, but it's not ok in either case