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Excessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from.
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An excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.
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↗Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org
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