Mathematician littmath on AI slop: posting PDFs is fine, misrepresenting them is misconduct
littmath · x · 2026-09-21
Mathematician littmath weighs in on "slop": posting PDFs of any quality (AI-generated or not) online is fine, as long as you accept being judged by their contents. If you present them as your work, you should at least understand and be able to defend them. It shades into misconduct when you misrepresent provenance or whether you actually understand the material.
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