Math Community Hit by the Bitter Lesson as Fraud Papers Surge

After incidents involving Tsimerman, Tao and Buckmaster, low-quality AI-assisted proofs are flooding arXiv, leaving mathematicians ashamed of their identity; Plinz says the community has been hit by the Bitter Lesson even harder than AI researchers were.

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