AI-written STEM work reignites debate over who should get authorship
polynoamial · x · 2026-07-23
The thread argues that in an era of LLM-powered STEM, people should be willing to “go grab your fruit” instead of treating early human authorship as sacred.
In the reply being quoted, the author says they do not think it makes sense to claim authorship for work such as resolving a conjecture when all the intellectual labor was done by AI. They suggest that maybe the model should be credited as the author, with the human listed as the prompter or communicator.
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