Frontier models given paper outlines produced embarrassing results, researcher reports
andrewgwils · x · 2026-09-06
Part 3/4 of Andrew White's thread: he gave top frontier models a paper outline (section headings plus bullet points) and asked them to complete the paper. Even in this contained hand-held setting, the output wasn't just poor but embarrassing — no compelling global structure, cringeworthy prose, and no particularly interesting results.
Related event: Researcher finds frontier models startlingly bad at end-to-end science(4 posts)→
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