Mathematicians slam OpenAI's 700+ math papers as 'impossible to read without AI help'
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-09
- Even if the results hold, many complain the papers from OpenAI's math dump are badly written.
- Mathematician Dana Moshkovitz: "the paper is so horribly written that it's impossible to read it without AI help" and "citations are often irrelevant and confusing".
- Adds a critical angle to the landmark release: staggering output, but poor readability and sloppy citations.
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