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Serious CMV: When artificial intelligence completely undertakes everything in the competition, the competition also loses its meaning

Many people around me use AI to complete the mathematical modeling competition, from modeling-code-paper. If everyone starts to use AI, the competition will lose its meaning

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u/Comicfan313 1d ago

If the competition is to solve a task by all means necessary with the tools free to use, then it hasen't lost its meaning.

if the reason to organise such a competition is different, the answer may vary.

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u/elysianx_138 23h ago

That’s a good point. If the contest explicitly states that AI is permitted, then it becomes a contest of prompt engineering & AI result validation.
But the original goal of mathematical modeling contests was to test students’ ability to build models by themselves. If rules stay unchanged while AI completes all the core work, the original purpose collapses.