If AI did the intellectual work, authorship should probably go to the model
littmath · x · 2026-07-23
The author argues it may not make sense to claim authorship for work where AI did all the intellectual labor.
Their suggestion is to treat the model as the real author and label the human as the one who “communicated” the result through prompting.
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