Re:A misalignment of AI in mathematics
by bwfan123 on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:24PM
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> and the equivalent of dropping a 200k line PR on people
With the equivalence of code as proofs, what you said is literally true except in software there are no prizes for 200K line ai-slop PRs that happen to pass the test-cases.
I can understand why the community is pissed. So now, lean proofs can be churned out at scale, and the community is left to decipher all of that slop into human understanding. There are bad actors with misaligned incentives coming in with drive-by proofs upending what the community holds dear which is to practice and propagate the art.
To re-align incentives the following could happen. AI slop lean proofs are dumped unceremoniously into a lean dumpster, and whats rewarded are results that could digested into human understanding - via the already followed human review process. Prizes are not given to lean proofs since anyone with sufficient compute can churn them out.
With the equivalence of code as proofs, what you said is literally true except in software there are no prizes for 200K line ai-slop PRs that happen to pass the test-cases.
I can understand why the community is pissed. So now, lean proofs can be churned out at scale, and the community is left to decipher all of that slop into human understanding. There are bad actors with misaligned incentives coming in with drive-by proofs upending what the community holds dear which is to practice and propagate the art.
To re-align incentives the following could happen. AI slop lean proofs are dumped unceremoniously into a lean dumpster, and whats rewarded are results that could digested into human understanding - via the already followed human review process. Prizes are not given to lean proofs since anyone with sufficient compute can churn them out.