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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by oliculipolicula on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:07AM (#50005385)
Tweeter checked it with Astra. It seems like OAI could have pointed their own instance at it before launch. Because the source of the tip is likely someone at OAI, my guess is that they actually did check. But after the launch.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by dragonwriter on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:41AM (#50005707)
LLMs are unpredictably complex with potentially sigbificnaly different reaults based on random seed and seemingly insignificant prompt details) in the ideal case and nondeterministic in practice, so someone finding an error with a given LLM is not strong evidence that the result was not checked with an LLM, even with the very same LLM, previously.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by computerex on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:31AM (#50006287)
No, not modern foundation models. This isn’t gpt-3.5-turbo. Although they are causal autoregressive, they have self consistency. You just have to verify multiple times to ensure you have averaged out any sampling errors.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by dragonwriter on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:10PM (#50009611)
> You just have to verify multiple times to ensure you have averaged out any sampling errors.

This is... logically equivalent to the claim it is offered to contradict.

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by computerex on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:11PM (#50011442)
Care to explain how ?
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by Hamuko on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:44AM (#50005745)
I can throw Opus 5.5 at my code three times for code review and get three different sets of things it considers to be issues. I imagine all of them were checked with Astra at least once, but were they checked enough times?