I did my parish internship at Throop Memorial Universalist Church (now named Throop Unitarian Universalist Church)!

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I don’t know that the whole thing was done with AI; it could also be that the author just used it to “help.” Like, the citations of my real and imaginary papers are there to support some comments about possible future work dealing with the characteristic 2 case. The main sources are cited correctly.

Someone recommended AeroLOPA to me a while back…

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And, Proposition 2.1 is simply incorrect. In a way that the later writing seems to be aware of?

… if you’re starting with ax² + bx + c that means that you avoid writing down 2ax + b? And he’s working with subresultants, as if that is simpler? It’s all very hard to figure out exactly what the point is.

Plus, he gets five DOIs and ISBNs wrong, plus another authors given name wrong.

I can’t say it’s written very clearly. The author is apparently trying to speed up certain calculations, but it’s hard to find a clear statement of what the assumptions are. And he says that he is “avoiding derivatives,” but he is only working with quadratics with variable coefficients, so…

“Hey Wikipedia preview image — my eyes are up here!”

Just maybe don’t ask *what* it is generating.

Hmm, Google gives a link to this paper of Park, Lauter, and Zaytsev. Whither does it lead?

Why, back to the AI-authored IACR paper!

Google’s AI summary created a *second* nonexistent paper out of the *first* AI-created nonexistent paper! No wonder they call it “generative AI”!

Here’s the start of it, from a phone screenshot.

Wait a second! Stolen valor! Why are Park, Lauter, and Zaytsev getting credit for *my* imaginary work?

And how did M.E. Zieve and Alexey Zaytsev — people I have actually worked with! — get combined into one person?

But it gets better! I wanted to learn more about my imaginary co-authored paper “More isogenies between Jacobians of genus-2 curves” so I searched for that title. DuckDuckGo gave one hit, to the AI-authored IACR paper above. So I went to Google and searched again. Google gave an AI summary!

My record so far was work that I did in 1999/2000 that finally appeared on the arXiv in 2020 and in print in 2022…

What theorems from then are *you* writing up? 🙂

Getting ready for the final rehearsal for my singing group :(

(There will be other opportunities for singing, fortunately.)

And, this week I’ve figured out a good way to write up a result I first worked out over 25 years ago…

Seems like an editorial page that requires every opinion to be about personal liberties and free markets might have an opinion about this based on the “personal liberties” angle, but apparently only some people get to have liberty in Jeff Bezos’s world.

On the other hand, the Washington Post supports the administration that is ripping families apart and sending both citizens and noncitizens to foreign gulags. Who would you rather support?