Dietterich pushes back on 'plagiarism' claim: LLM papers cite their sources
tdietterich · x · 2026-10-09
In a debate with mathematician juststeveh, who likened LLM training to photocopying thousands of mathematicians' papers without permission and stripping attribution, Thomas Dietterich responds that mathematicians publish precisely to share results, and that the LLM-related papers he checked are full of proper citations — implying the plagiarism analogy fails.
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