What Peter Woit thinks about AI slop
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Peter Woit has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsin an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.
↗Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our readingAI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.
Their wordsThe result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.