An AI assistant takes a math comic a little too seriously
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-20
A screenshot shows an AI assistant dissecting a math comic and then over-reading a dense polynomial claim as if it could settle a famous open problem.
The joke is the assistant’s escalating confidence: it starts by explaining the comic, then checks the algebra locally, and finally treats the purported counterexample as potentially disproof-level evidence.
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