alt Hacker NewsThe potential threats section reads like panic, rather than a critique of AI. I can see where #2 has some legs, if I thought tradition was sacrosanct.
1. AI proofs might be incorrect and difficult to demonstrate why. This implies they are not like human proofs in these qualities.
2. AI proofs are difficult to attribute correctly, because they don't follow established traditions. Nothing to do with the math, but ok.
3. Mathematicians without AI (for political or practical reasons) will not necessarily be able to participate in AI-assisted research. This history of Mathematics is littered with people having uneven access.
4. People/orgs are publishing that AI found things are fact before they are properly evaluated. Same issue.
5. All these things are bad, because AI might muddy the field with lots of unknowns.
This appears to be a very bad faith post that intentionally misrepresents what is being said.
1. pertains to the quantity of output adding stress to review processes; LLMs can feasibly produce a million plausible but incorrect 'proofs' in the time that a human can produce one. We already see this effect in software development, with bug bounty programs shutting down and open-source software rejecting AI contributions or closing altogether because LLMs flood review channels with an amount of spam for which there is no sufficient amount of human bandwidth to handle.
2. is nothing about "following established traditions" but rather the general concept of crediting people for their prior work, unless you think that "not plagiarising" is a trifling established tradition.
3. is more or less accurate to the point they made, but "it has historically been this way" isn't a compelling justification for "it should always be this way and also it's okay if it gets worse"
4. An existing issue being made 100x more common is a point worth bringing attention to even if it already existed, actually
5. said nothing that could possibly be interpreted in the vein of "muddying the field with lots of unknowns" at all. Point 5 was actually about economic incentives and the risk of mathematic research becoming beholden to tech monopolies