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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by nairboon on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:12AM (#50006794)
What a timeline, OpenAI's model is so good, it publishes hundreds of math papers.

The latest model even finds mistakes in previously published math papers!!!*

* so far, only OpenAI's math papers were faulty and needed retraction.

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by empath75 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:27AM (#50007001)
LLMs find flaws in human-published math papers _all the time_, usually in the process of formalizing them in lean.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by wartywhoa23 on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:18AM (#50018450)
Humans are not being sold as the panacea to all the world problems currently.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by infamouscow on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:18AM (#50006868)
I look forward to OpenAI reviewing all papers in the field.

It'll be a good test to separate those earnestly trying to advance human knowledge, from those wasting my tax dollars. The later group ought to be publicly shamed and ridiculed without mercy. We need a more invective word than 'pseudo-intellectual.'

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by solid_fuel on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:17PM (#50014289)
> We need a more invective word than 'pseudo-intellectual.'

Here's one: 'AI-Bro'