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OpinionEthan Mollick · X· @emollick·· 5 days ago

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GPT-6 Pro finds supposed errors in academic papers all the time, just as part of other work. Confirming the errors & learning their importance would still take a lot of time today, but it will get faster. We don't have the right mechanisms in place to deal a flood of corrections.

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GPT-6 Pro finds supposed errors in academic papers all the time, just as part of other work. Confirming the errors & learning their importance would still take a lot of time today, but it will get faster. We don't have the right mechanisms in place to deal a flood of corrections.

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Ethan Mollick said GPT-6 Pro routinely flags suspected errors in academic papers while doing other work, but confirming those errors and assessing their significance still takes substantial time. Mollick expects that verification process to become faster and said current mechanisms are not equipped to handle a flood of corrections. His claim concerns possible errors flagged by the model, not confirmed mistakes in the papers.

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