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by elil17 51 days ago
I understood this to mean that the ChatGPT output was technically correct, just hard to understand.
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I haven't reviewed it myself, but when a mathematician calls a proof "quite poor" and experts have to "sift through" it, I would understand that to mean that it's technically incorrect. Errors like "This statement isn't correct, but it points towards a weaker statement that is, and the subsequent steps can be rebuilt on top of the weaker statement" are pretty common in output from both LLMs and math students.
No - It likely means that the proof was meandering, and had lots of additional pointless steps.
Good/bad is orthogonal to correct/incorrect.