LLM training likened to "ransacking mathematicians' offices" — critics spar over provenance
just_steve_h · x · 2026-10-09
Continuing the OpenAI math debate, juststeveh argues LLMs have ingested every scrap of reachable text—monographs, journals, blogs, forums—equivalent to trainers "ransacking mathematicians' offices and copying their notes." tdietterich replies that mathematicians published to share results and the papers cite sources properly.