a fields medalist wrote 3,000 to 4,000 pages of proofs in his whole career. openai just matched that with 30 papers. → on october 6, openai released about 700 ai-written math papers claiming answers to open problems → hugo duminil-copin, who won the fields medal in 2022, found around 4,000 pages tied to his own work in only 30 of them → he told swiss tv he cried, thinking of the young people who are just starting out in the field → on one problem, he said it felt like running a marathon with someone on his back who jumped off in the last 100 metres to cross the line first → some of the papers have already been withdrawn, and reading the rest properly could take years the maths may be right, but the way it landed broke a lot of hearts. so tell me honestly, is this the biggest gift science ever got, or the day we lost the joy of finding answers ourselves?