Auto-generated AI papers call pi 'the usual positive circle constant' and other bizarre quirks
tszzl · x · 2026-10-08
Researcher Bryan shares oddities from reading AI auto-generated papers: weird asides, references that are cited then abandoned, and other off-kilter writing habits.
The funniest example: instead of writing "pi," the paper says "the usual positive circle constant" — a circumlocution that reveals how strangely these models paraphrase standard mathematical notation when generating text end-to-end.
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