Critics mock Greg Brockman for boosting wrong science slop as proof of AI progress
littmath · x · 2026-07-26
A critic says OpenAI president Greg Brockman amplified a piece of wrong scientific slop as evidence for “the power of mathematical AI,” turning a verification-vs-generation debate into a public AI-industry facepalm.
The quoted thread argues that AI is making scientific generation easier, but verification is becoming the real bottleneck — both for checking your own results and for sharing them reliably.
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