In previous math sharing there was speculation about stealing human researcher's results or progress, via prompt inputs from those researchers, and sharing that as their own result. They're adjusting their process, and it seems ok.

After how poorly OpenAI and Anthropic handled the previous cases, I approve of the more measured and cautious approach this time.

We cannot have them rushing to publish amidst tons of confusion, rumors of threats/scooping and outright plagiarism of existing work (by failing to cite said work).

If they're going to participate as scientists in these more rigorous fields, they're going to have to match that level of rigor, not lower it to the disastrous low that ML research publication is at.

I think it's generally a good thing that OpenAI is noticing when their projects are harming human communities, and deciding to respect their norms, especially when their math discoveries do not have immediate application and build on the thousands of years of that community's work.

Just to be very clear: they aren't asking for permission, they are framing it that way because of the bad press.

There's no gatekeeping here!