Mathematician's talk abstract scooped: student used AI to derive and post proofs on arXiv first
fortnow · x · 2026-09-19
A mathematician reports that right after posting an abstract of an upcoming talk online, a student elsewhere used AI to derive proofs of the stated results and posted them on arXiv — before the original author had uploaded anything. A new scooping risk for mathematicians.
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