Mathematician coins 'mathslopcalypse': none of the hundreds of new papers readable without AI
rrwilliams · x · 2026-10-08
Mathematician rrwilliams calls the flood of hundreds of newly released math papers the 'mathslopcalypse,' asking whether anyone can honestly name a single paper in the batch that isn't a huge pain to read without AI assistance — implying AI-generated papers now need AI just to be parsed.
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