"How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians recoil as OpenAI floods field with 700 AI papers
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-10
The Decoder reports OpenAI published 700+ AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems, stunning the mathematics community. A math blog collected 100+ researcher responses ranging from fascination to existential grief over a lost way of working. Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin wrote, "I am paralysed" — a landmark moment for AI's encroachment on pure math research culture.
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