Comment by SilverElfin
3 hours ago
> Technologies that draw extensively on the published mathematical commons undermine the traditional system of attribution.
This just feels like something that has always been true. Defending attribution in this way feels more like a panicked gatekeeping rather than something valuable and principled. I’m a bit disappointed to see people like Terence Tao endorse this.
A career in mathematics is very unlikely to deliver fortune, fame, or even respect. Attribution is in many cases the only way we know that someone else thought our work was valuable.
The bar for being cited has never been lower in the history of mathematics: getting an arXiv account is easier than getting a lobste.rs account (at least by my experience, for I have the former but not the latter).
Tao knows what he is talking about, he was an early adopter of LLMs for proof-generation.