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.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    9 hours ago

    Here’s what the field should do: ignore those paper and never publish them. Then have people verify the math and publish the proofs as their own (whoever can do it first gets the credit).

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      11 hours ago

      that makes a lot of sense. they are possible proofs till someone actually verifies them. heck even publishing is about more verification.

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      10 hours ago

      I still don’t want a “first pass the post” kind of math, but that would be a sensible solution