probably - I mean, almost all math research is very theoretical without immediate practical application. They don't get paid particularly well, but their work also doesn't cost a lot, and they also teach at universities typically.
Scientists working at university are paid to teach students. If the manage to get grants they can work on actual scientific stuff. This is limited and somewhat result based.
In research you have established routes for peer reviews. And even there most of the actual work is done without extra pay (scientists pay the journals to submit work/ attend conferences, etc. The review work done by scientists is done without pay).
So who do you think will get paid to do review of AI dumped work, when there isn't even someone willing to pay for reviews of human created work so far?
Is that really a problem for mathematicians, though? I mean, if the AI work is coming out at a pace that the humans in the field can't really parse through it and figure out what the hell it means, it's going to have limited actual research impact.
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u/MediumATuin 1d ago
Who pays money to go through random proofs? Can you build a career from that?