Why math calls it verifiable and everyone else calls it slop
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-23
Rex Douglass jokes that mathematicians don’t call AI output “slop” because it is usually verifiable — counterexamples and proofs make bad output easier to detect.
His punchline is that everyone else calls their field’s AI output slop because:
- their own human output is also messy
- their evaluation criteria are messy too
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