Mathematicians clash with AI labs over models racing them using their preprints
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-09
A dispute is roiling the math community: a paper explaining a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture allegedly drew from an earlier Borisov-Gabber-Vasiu preprint, prompting public questions about how the counterexample was obtained. Yoav Goldberg argues that consenting to models trained on your data is very different from internal models trained on your latest work racing you to the solution; Boaz Barak notes Anthropic has similar opt-out policies for training data.
Ulam's Sochen Zang mocked the situation: researchers contribute data with stripped PII while frontier models pump their aura on uncited 'breakthroughs' built from that work.
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