AI-era authorship looks weaker as a signal of real ability
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that authorship has always been a weak signal of someone’s actual ability, and that direct interaction is often a much better way to judge a person. It says this idea needs to be remembered and reinforced even more now, in the AI era, after a quoted comment questioned whether giving credit to the person who merely finishes a theorem is still the right norm.
The discussion is about how AI may further weaken the meaning of traditional authorship and credit conventions in math and research.
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