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Re:OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results by p-e-w on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:59AM (#50003878)
> So it’s all just hallucinated slop.

No it’s not. In fact, much of it is formally verified, which makes it far more reliable than most human-written proofs.

Btw, the most famous human-written proof of the past half-century (Fermat’s Last Theorem) had a massive flaw that took two years and major help from other mathematicians to fix, while the most (in)famous human-written proof of the past 15 years (abc conjecture) is now widely believed to be false.

But people hear what they want to hear I guess.

Re:OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results by andriy_koval on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:37AM (#50005105)
> No it’s not. In fact, much of it is formally verified, which makes it far more reliable than most human-written proofs.

its formal verification on top of formalization by LLM, which could have errors.