Mathematician's AI-generated errata are "slop" but mostly correct
littmath · x · 2026-08-27
In his thread on AI-auditing his own papers, Daniel Litt revealed he also generated semi-automated errata. He openly calls them "slop" and only lightly edited them, but spot-checks showed they were mostly correct, if massively overzealous—often replacing whole paragraphs where a single word would do.
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