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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by AstroBen on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:23AM (#46665548)
It's also the wording. The weird phrases

"Glorified Google search with worse footnotes" what on earth does that mean?

AI has a distinct feel to it

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by lxgr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:44AM (#46665662)
And with enough motivated reasoning, you can find AI vibes in almost every comment you don’t agree with.

For better or worse, I think we might have to settle on “human-written until proven otherwise”, if we don’t want to throw “assume positive intent” out the window entirely on this site.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by testdelacc1 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:52AM (#46665704)
Dude is swearing up and down that they came up with the text on their own. I agree with you though, it reeks of LLMs. The only alternative explanation is that they use LLMs so much that they’ve copied the writing style.