Comment by ehhthing

I’ve thought a lot about publishing research and wanting to do more of it, but right as I finally had the time and energy to start writing articles LLMs start to take off. Now all of a sudden, I’m acutely aware that everything I publish will be used for AI training.

For math, a field that is built on incremental research it feels like AI labs will do nothing but discourage publishing research at all for fear that they will be able to spend the money for compute that publicly funded academia simply cannot afford.

It feels like publishing anything at this point just means that your work will be fed to a machine that will make sure your work will never been seen by anyone else because it will always be the ones making the “true advancements”.

Perhaps I’d feel better about this if AI labs really existed for humanity’s benefit, but for some reason I don’t think that comes up in their investor slide decks.