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How do I recognize an AI-generated question?
Apart from "being nonsense", how do I recognize an AI-generated question? Are there telltale signs? Could you post some examples, maybe as links to deleted questions?
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AI generated questions: a strange riddle?
So apparently now people are posting AI-generated questions (rather than answers). To me this makes no sense at all whatsoever -- why would anyone post a question to which neither they nor anybody ...
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Can/should we tell people that AI cut and paste answers are not welcome?
We now commonly see new users pop up and post a string of nonsense, AI-generated answers to a bunch of questions, before their accounts are eventually banned.
In order to counteract this, could we ...
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Edits to capitalization in titles
Given that
there are different rules for the capitalization of words in headlines, e.g. for newspapers; here is randomly chosen link to some rules
there are no related styleguides for MO
I would ...
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Close votes on questions with good answers
When reviewing close vote queues I frequently encounter cases of several close votes on questions that have received one or more more or less elaborate answers, frequently with several upvotes each. ...
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How to invite a user for a private chat
How to invite a user to a Private MO chat.
I read the following but I do not know how to apply it yet.
Your help is appreciated
https://meta.mathoverflow.net/a/3635/36688
I have to ...
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Should the tags (peano-arithmetic) and (theories-of-arithmetic) be merged?
TL;DR: Should the tags peano-arithmetic and theories-of-arithmetic be merged? Is some clean-up needed before doing that? Or are there some reasons not to merge these tags?
In October 2020, a tag ...
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Question preview MathJax error
When I search this, I get this answer preview:
However, there is a dollar sign after the V=L in the post:
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Disappearing comment
I posted two comments on this (quickly closed) post. My first comment disappeared. In it I explained my closure vote (which I think is polite to do). I also explained how I thought the post could be ...
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What input is blacklisted on MO?
I wonder whether it could be possible to make public which input is blacklisted in titles, posts, tags here on MathOverflow. Or at least a redacted list - I could understand that the mods might keep ...
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Why can't question titles end with a period?
This is probably a duplicate, but gentle searching didn't turn it up; it's hard to know what'd be a good query.
I tried several times (within the grace period, so it only shows up once) to submit an ...
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Why is this? (searching by filter)
I am searching using a filter composed of several tags, and get empty results:
Why?
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Why isn't users rep showing on their posts? [duplicate]
Example image is below. Where the user's reputation is normally, it is completely blank? Why? What is happening? I tried reloading and looking at other questions with the same result. The problem also ...
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goo.gl is closing down
goo.gl, a URL shortener service from Google, is shutting down, and in one year it will no longer work: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/18/216211/google-url-...
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Can I know why my post was deleted by a bot?
My question Compiling a List of Schauder Bases for Function Spaces was deleted by a bot, I want to know why.
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Possible delay/review to deal with troll posts
In light of the ongoing garbage flood, I am curious whether the following would be possible to institute (and/or a good idea):
When a new/unregistered (or under-X-rep.) account posts an answer or ...
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Site in read-only mode, but users are still posting new material
For a day now, every time I go to MathOverflow, it says "This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon." But I also see what appear to be new posts from ...
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What do you think about the following MO question?
What do you think about the following MO question?
By posting this question for feedback I am following David Roberts' very patient and kind advice.
If you have already seen the question below please ...
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Why doesn’t the LaTeX render here?
This question has a block of valid LaTeX which doesn’t render when viewed except on edit mode. Below are 2 screenshots from my phone. One in edit mode and the other in regular mode.
I used QuickLaTeX ...
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dispute -100 rep decision
I was given -100 reputation for this sound mathematical post https://mathoverflow.net/questions/473947?noredirect=1#comment1231454_473947
This is excessive and I want to dispute this decision, how do ...
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Edit summary rejected with "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I recently tried to submit an edit to Why does an invariant measure define a Schwartzman cycle? No matter what I put in my edit summary, it was rejected with the message "Comment reserved for ...
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Asking for consensus on mathematical conventions/definitions
Is this (mathoverflow or meta) a reasonable place to ask nuanced questions about how the mathematical community interprets mathematical terms and how they are used in common questions? For example: is ...
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Why is the site being flooded with junk right now? What is being done about it?
Right now the site is being flooded with posts from new users, with pseudonymous names, who use a mixture of obvious AI-generated nonsense mathematics and weird sentences (sometimes borderline ...
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User destroyed without explanations or obvious reasons
Yesterday (June 6), somebody posted this answer (now deleted, so users with <10k reputation will not see it). I have not bothered checking whether it is correct, but it surely looks reasonable, and ...
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Do lookalike characters in question titles pose any risks?
Attacks via "lookalike domains" are a known malicious trick. Is any risk posed by a lookalike question title?
I know that's rather vague, and it's a concern that seldom arises. I give an ...
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Users using AI to write lots of answers
Recently, there are a lot of new pseudonymous users with a peculiar pattern of posts: only answers, no questions, in lots of widely differing areas of mathematics (where it is unlikely that one random ...
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New bolded tags?
The past few days, I’ve noticed that the question tags on the main site are now bolded; is there any way to revert them back to normal? (Not the end of the world, but I find it distracting more than ...
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OpenAI and MathOverflow?
The agreement between SO and OpenAI seems to have resulted some ill humour. Does MO plan to follow?
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Is something wrong with the citation helper?
I've found the citation helper very useful for inserting references in posts, and I always used to be very impressed at its ability to find details of even some quite obscure papers.
But recently it ...
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Announcement: A stacks project for category theory
I'm releasing today The Clowder Project, a tag-based wiki and reference for category theory powered by Gerby.
I plan to eventually make it into a comprehensive resource for category theory, in the ...
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What tags are appropriate for a "reverse" reference request?
I have a just asked a question, searching for information on a reference, but I'm not sure what tags to use. I know the reference, although I know no further details about it.
A similar question ...
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MO answer formalized in Lean
I have formalized an answer at
Homeomorphisms and "mod finite"
by @VilleSalo, in
a moderately-sized Lean file.
Outcome: his claims turned out to be 100% accurate.
(The only stumbling block ...
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Are questions about whether a type of work/problem/solution or (one's own) arxiv paper is publishable on topic?
This is a bit related to the question:
Are "has this been studied before" questions on topic?
If I post something in the arxiv, can I ask for an opinion as to whether: 1) it's been done ...
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More spam bots than usual?
Has anyone noticed the site getting a lot more spam posts than usual over the past couple days? The ones I've seen repeatedly have "BingX referral codes" or similar codes for Bitcoin or ...
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Discrepancy between MathOverflow logo and this site's logo
There is a slight difference between the sizes of the boxes in the MO logo and the Meta.MO logo. The MO logo's box is slightly longer and the gap in the rightmost side is slightly less tall. The ...
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A mathjax issue with stars in super/subscripts
I encountered Topos associated to a category with glowing-red \*s in it. When trying to edit them out I discovered that whenever I try to replace an ...
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Streamlined tagging for Mochizuki
For better or worse, there is a number of questions at MO on Mochizuki's stuff. I noticed that some of the questions have the tag "abc-conjecture" while others don't have this tag. Should ...
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Incentivizing ‘bad’ questions
As a 5+ year member of MO, I remember the old days when upvotes on questions only netted you 5 points as opposed to the current 10.
While I was generally glad to see good questions being rewarded in a ...
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MathOverflow answers and peer review
Sometimes, the asker does not have sufficient background to verify an answer. How should one handle such cases?
Some of the signals on whether to accept such an answer are whether it 'looks' good, ...
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Ordered rings tag
I've noticed that while there are tags ordered-groups and ordered-fields, there is no tag ordered-rings. The issue is that there was a little amount of questions with this tag. So it got deleted.
I ...
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All these invalid weblinks
I found so many web links became invalid on the questions and even more on the comments. Please be aware of this issue. In the future, this site needs to either repair the invalid links or advise ...
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Is it fine to repost questions from a paper
Is it fine to re-ask open questions from ones paper on mathoverflow?
On the one hand, I am interested in finding an answer to the question, and it might help if it is more publicly available. But if I ...
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How do we fit in with Stack Exchange’s new AI agreement with Google?
Stack Exchange has some kind of new AI agreement with Google, as announced in their blog.
I’m just trying to get caught up myself here on what exactly is going on, but one real possibility is that ...
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Why doesn't the prime in $\sum_n'$ sit flush against the summation symbol?
The TeX snippets $\sum_n'$ \sum_n' and $\sum_n^\prime$ \sum_n^\prime should (as with all things TeX, barring trickery) be ...
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Could MO use a minus sign for negative numbers?
I just noticed that negative vote totals are recorded with a hyphen:
In general within the StackExchange network it's probably not worth fussing over, but, here on MO, maybe we could use a minus sign ...
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Request to consider undeleting an answer
Apologies if this should go in the "requests to undelete questions" thread but this seems to be technically different.
I noticed that this answer https://mathoverflow.net/a/465960/ has ...
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Why can't I post a question?
I'm not good at expressing myself and need research level math help, to assist my research in mathematics, to help the community.
Please let me express myself here as I am just trying to get ...
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Inconsistency in MO votes
Yesterday I sent this question to a friend of mine. He told me he upvoted my question. When I go to my notifications, I don't see the vote.
But when I go to the history of my question, it can be seen ...
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Missing brackets in $\{x\}$ in drafts, not missing in the final question/product
I am using the latest version of Firefox on Linux (bodhi linux) as well as Mac and Windows.
Some $\LaTeX$ is not typeset correctly in MathOverflow: whenever I type a set, like the singleton $\{x\}$, ...
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Including a hash character (#) in a math equation causes it to not render (in new-question page)
I want to ask a question about a paper that uses this notation:
However, when I typeset it in MathJax with ...
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