alt Hacker NewsI’m conflicted. I guess we’ll see what the final total is once an enormous level of unpaid human effort is expended verifying the AI outputs. A little sad if that’s the future of math.
It kind of reminds me of when tech giants open source a project as a means of putting a positive spin on abandonware. “Here’s the source! Any problems are yours to fix now. You’re welcome”
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Why is it all unpaid - shouldn’t some of these have applications of which it would be in companies with paid employees best interest to verify?
Also - this is no different to open source and code contributions now right
I’m unsure. The whole academia is built on unpaid human efforts. Journal writers are unpaid, and institutions paid for their papers to be published by for-profit publishers. Journal reviewers are paid the bare minimum, certainly unproportional to their efforts and expertise.
We are all reverse centaurs now.
Where are you getting unpaid from? Almost all people who are qualified to analyze the results are paid researchers. And if it is unpaid, then it sounds like they're looking it over for their own reasons, and that's fine?
I also fail to see the issue you have with releasing abandoned source. In what world is that bad? That obviously is a gift and should be encouraged. e.g. id software's history of doing that has meant their work stays alive forever.