Terence Tao: AI will flip the math literature — 90% of papers will now be poorly written
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-10
Mathematician Terence Tao warns that while AI lets each author produce more and better papers faster, it reverses the quality structure of the literature: where 90% of extant papers used to be well-written, now 90% will be poorly written. Commenters note math is now facing what ML/AI has dealt with for years — output volume exploding alongside low-quality content.
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