Student uses AI to scoop a professor's unpublished math proof from his talk
erikphoel · x · 2026-10-02
A professor described his progress on a proof in a talk before publishing the paper, and a student fed the talk to an AI, generated a paper from it, and published first. The post calls it a "dark forest moment" for math: in the AI era, publicly describing unpublished results risks being scooped almost instantly, raising new questions about priority and disclosure norms in academia.
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