Comment by gorgolo
1 day ago
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?
They should have posted the ones they actually confirmed. They don't have any time pressure to release hundreds of new proofs, they could do 10 a week for all I care, as long as they make sure everything is actually sound and properly checked. You know, do the due diligence with the results. Not only would that prevent them from having to do retractions, it also wouldn't be any less impressive. Just not as much shock marketing value.
It's really not that hard to understand. My issue is NOT with the fact that they publish results. It's purely about how it's done and what the misleading claims are that come along with them.
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