‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

3 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/technology

Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.

threeonefour 149 points 3 days ago

This seems to be the mathematical equivalent of using AI to submit 200 unverified pull requests to an open source project and then telling the maintainers it's their job to figure it all out.

The one mathematician saying he's not going to spend hours of his time to verify if a slop report is true, let alone do it for dozens of reports, reminds me of all those projects making rules that unverified AI pull requests will be trashed.

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42yeah 47 points 3 days ago

I think OpenAI has retracted some of them already. For OpenAI it’s a really low-risk thing: if it’s wrong, then just retract the paper. If it’s right though, the fame all goes to OpenAI. Meanwhile, people who spent their whole life researching on this topic, needs to confirm this manually for OpenAI.

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cecilkorik 19 points 2 days ago

It's a DDoS attack on human capacity, effort and attention, always has been.

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