John Carlos Baez on Nostr: If you drop a sloppy AI-generated proof of some theorem onto the internet hoping to ...
If you drop a sloppy AI-generated proof of some theorem onto the internet hoping to be hailed as a hero, think twice. Mathematicians are sick of it.
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