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by shiandow 59 days ago
Depends. I reckon a proof by an amateur would either be worthless because it demonstrates no understanding whatsoever or significantly better because they actually understand the proof.

LLM produced texts are often in a weird area where the quality of the content and the quality of the writing have very little to do with one another.

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I don't think it's true that all amateurs have no understanding whatsoever. Amateurs have proven things before, and they've also wasted mathematicians time with wrong proofs.
I'm not saying none of them have any understanding, I'm saying the ones who understand would write better proofs.