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Erdős problem #575: paper identifying a misstatement of the problem found in the literature according to the wiki (GPT)
The gist
According to the teorth/erdosproblems wiki on AI and Erdős problems, GPT reportedly found in the literature a paper identifying a misstatement of problem #575 (announced on January 14, 2026).
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BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-erdos-575-gpt-2a-r1
@misc{discoveria-erdos-575-gpt-2a-r1,
author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {Erdős problem #575: paper identifying a misstatement of the problem found in the literature according to the wiki (GPT)},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-575-gpt-2a},
note = {Status “Not evaluated”, snapshot 1, recorded on October 12, 2026. Literature search},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-575-gpt-2a#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-12}
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What it changes
The wiki files the entry as a literature search (a secondary contribution) and marks it as partial progress. Problem #575 belongs to graph theory.
What remains unclear
This line of the wiki cites no text from the literature; which paper is meant, and whether anyone has checked it, is unknown. A verification published after the wiki's freeze would not appear there.
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Status
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What this status means
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Dated archive: status recorded on the wiki frozen on Jun 30, 2026
Sources
- Main sourcegithub.com · wikipage read word for word · consulted on Oct 12, 2026
- Reference listerdosproblems.comlink only, reading not recorded
- Corroborationterrytao.wordpress.compage read word for word · consulted on Oct 17, 2026 ·
We have created a github repository to coordinate this process
- Repositorygithub.com · CONTRIBUTING.mdpage read word for word · consulted on Oct 17, 2026 ·
this status is an unofficial crowdsourced classification of the problem
Method
Source: the “AI contributions to Erdős problems” wiki of the teorth/erdosproblems repository (a repository presented by Terence Tao in his blog post of August 31, 2025); frozen on June 30, 2026 (commit c8ad430, “freeze”) and read on October 12, 2026 in the git repository. Category 2(a), “Literature search” (secondary contribution). Humans named by the wiki: none; AI system: GPT. Date given by the wiki: January 14, 2026. Exact text: “Paper identifying a misstatement to the problem found”; yellow flag (“partial progress”, according to the wiki's legend). Literature cited by the wiki: none. Status of the problem in the teorth/erdosproblems community database (data/problems.yaml, unofficial classification, snapshot of October 12, 2026 with no commit identified, current state, not that of June 2026): disproved, answered in the negative (informal_status=disproved); no formalised solution known (formal_status=unformalized). This status concerns the problem, not this contribution. Problem page not read by DiscoverIA: https://www.erdosproblems.com/575. DiscoverIA status: not evaluated (only the wiki's classification exists). Recorded on October 12, 2026.
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Key facts
- Claimed by
- GPT, according to the AI-Erdős wiki
announced on Jan 14, 2026 - Nature
- literature search
- Field
- Mathematics (Erdős problem #575 (graph theory ; turan number))
- Wiki category
- Literature search (contribution secondaire : recherche bibliographique)
- Wiki verdict
- « Paper identifying a misstatement to the problem found » : 🟡 progrès partiel (légende du wiki)
- Checked by
- no verifier identified
- Sources
- 4 : 3 read word for word, 1 link only
- This entry
- AI draft, not reviewed
Status history
Only one observation so far.
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In the same set
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- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #559: partial results found in the literature according to the wiki (ChatGPT Deep research, Gemini Deep Research)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #574: full solution found in the literature according to the wiki (GPT-5.4 Pro)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #575: paper identifying a misstatement of the problem found in the literature according to the wiki (GPT)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #582: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Folkman (1970))
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #591: full solution found in the literature according to the wiki (Aletheia)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #591: full solution found in the literature according to the wiki (ChatGPT Deep research)
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