OpenAI withdraws math preprints
OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems
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· Edouard Machery
“it has been like that since the first days of LLMs - they exploited the cog sci community to understand what they models do, how they work, they are now exploiting mathematicians. free labor, which we are surprisingly too willing to give. Nationalize!” evidence ↗
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“it has been like that since the first days of LLMs - they exploited the cog sci community to understand what they models do, how they work, they are now exploiting mathematicians. free labor, which we are surprisingly too willing to give. Nationalize!”
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“Association for Human Mathematics: “Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human un…”