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bewareofscamsyesterday at 6:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

"It's not X, it's Y" hot take AI slop.


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seeknotfindyesterday at 6:33 PM

100%. Context is big for AI, but it's nothing compared to everything a human can learn. If you efficiently represent everything in context, it may be many papers, but if AI is actively working through proofs, it will quickly fill up. They're no denying AI is making strides, but pinning it to memory is an oversimplification.

mrobyesterday at 7:15 PM

I don't have to open the article to be confident it's not worth reading. Anybody knowledgeable in the field should be familiar with AI writing tells and the message they send. It only takes a few seconds thought to transform the title into something like "AI beats mathematicians by out-remembering, not out-thinking." Regardless of whether the article is slop or not, I expect any competent writer to avoid slop phrasing in their titles. To do otherwise signals laziness.