Mathematicians are becoming free QA labor for AI-generated proofs, argue Lean community members
turincomplete · x · 2026-10-10
In a snarky exchange about AI-generated math, @turincomplete sarcastically complains that mathematicians now do heavy labor validating mass-produced AI "slop" proofs — and should feel grateful for the billions in compute and trillions in market caps behind it. AI researcher @suchenzang quips it's "communal Lean labor being mined for free." The thread touches a real tension: as AI-assisted proofs proliferate, formal verification in Lean falls on human mathematicians.
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