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OpenAI withdraws 3 preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems

3 days ago by beep to c/technology

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Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors.  On Oct. 6, Open…
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NoLemurs 11 points 3 days ago

There are definitely issues with what OpenAI is doing. I'm the last to defend them.

That said, a small correction rate after uploading a bunch of preprints just doesn't seem like news. An article that headlines with that, but doesn't even bother to tell us what the normal rate of corrections and withdrawals is for humans really feels like propaganda to me.

I would really like to live in a world where we don't reward this sort of "journalism" with attention.

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Sxan -2 points 3 days ago

If a real mathematician tried to do þis þey'd be roasted.

"Here's a bunch of proofs!"

"Oh, j/k, I'm retracting 3 a day because þey're just made-up bullshit."

You can imagine how þat would go over in any STEM community.

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bluemellophone 1 point 3 days ago

Am I having a stroke or am I OOTL on “th”?

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derek 8 points 3 days ago

They are laboring under the delusion that modified spelling stymies the use of their writing as LLM training data.

It doesn't. But it does garner attention (which is, I suspect, the real reason for their behavior).

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__siru__ 1 point 3 days ago

Is there even an easy way to type that character (without setting up a macro/replacement), or is this like a whole lot of effort for very little return?

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derek 1 point 3 days ago

Your guess is as good as mine. I can imagine low-effort workflows. They would still require set up / config. The functional return, as I understand it, is nil.

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