Terence Tao slams OpenAI for scooping researchers' work, warns of lasting damage to math
Nikvest · reddit · 2026-09-09
- Fields Medalist Terence Tao publicly criticized OpenAI on Mastodon for scooping other people's work.
- He warned the practice would cause serious long-term damage to the field of mathematics, as researchers' results get preempted or absorbed by AI companies.
- A rare direct callout of OpenAI by one of the most respected figures in academia, with implications for how AI labs handle credit for research they build on.
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