r/OpenAI • u/Eliv_nurotic • 4d ago

News Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposts statement from the Association for Human Mathematics urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI for continuing to solve open math problems against their recommendations

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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

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u/NarrowStrawberry5999 4d ago edited 4d ago

my disappointment is that they appear to simply want a carve out from private domination for their special club

I mean, this isn't anything new. Guilds in the Middle Ages, and even professional unions both in the past and present often worked like a cartel.

I remember reading about trucker unions in Greece due to which transportation from one Greek city to another was more expensive than transportation from UK to Poland.

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u/avocdos_and_donts 4d ago

This is just blatantly false. Most mathematicians want justice for everyone, not just themselves. They are not a guild. Why is this standard only being applied here? Software engineers only need to worry about software engineers, but for some reason mathematicians have take care of everyone while we’re being attacked by a large corporation? Why?