Comment by autuni
9 hours ago
The difference is that human mathematicians wouldn't post it online, claim they have achieved some proof, and then check after publication and announcing the results to the world. You would always check your work first, then publish it. It's not about preprint vs peer-reviewed. That of course is normal practice, it's the high-profile claims that are being made that are the problem here. They just blindly published results produced by the LLM, with 0 due diligence.
Yes they would, in many fields it is (was?) normal to post a preprint and leave it up for the next year while the handful of other people working on the topic digest it and agree on whether it’s right or not, before even submitting to a journal. Sometimes the others would find an isssue in an argument and you hopefully manage to fix it or potentially retract / not submit to a journal.
You may want to read beyond the first part of a sentence. Yes, preprints have always been a thing. The claims and publicity around the potential findings are handled differently here. That's where the issue is.
What would’ve made you not complain about OpenAI’s papers?
They had over a hundred papers, they basically did a GitHub dump and a pretty bare blog post that mentions they have a retraction policy. Should they have done it anonymously? Is the blog post the problem? Is it that it’s on GitHub? Or what?
> is that human xs wouldn't y
This is wrong for a strikingly large percentage of xs and ys