Mathematicians quietly produce solid LLM-assisted papers amid OpenAI chaos
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-10
Amid the chaos around OpenAI's math paper, the original thread points out an overlooked fact: over the past year, mathematicians' use of LLMs has been consistently productive—yielding carefully written papers at a level comparable to the OpenAI drop, with proper acknowledgment of AI use and others' work, ready for peer review and seminars—apparently using less capable models.
The author argues there was already an intelligent path forward that doesn't damage the human infrastructure that produces mathematicians while still speeding up mathematical progress; one clean step would be giving mathematical researchers access to frontier models.
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