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Comment by SpicyLemonZest

5 hours ago

It's a real example that's happened to me twice in the past year, so I'm not sure what to make of the idea that it's far away from how the real world works.

I'm also not sure I understand what you're objecting to if we agree that mathematicians define their field. The source link is a declaration from 25 Fields Medallists with precisely that goal. They believe/define/declare that the type of AI-generated proofs we've seen are vibecoded throwaway PoCs; they feel that a well-structured proof must include factors such as "a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others", and the success criterion is not a true/false conclusion but rather "development and integration into the mathematical canon".