Mellowed Tiger

>be me >mathematician >trying to solve one of the hardest problems in the field, million dollar prize on it >grind it for a year >every draft, idea, and dead-end goes into a hosted AI coding tool >paying for it out of my own research funds >bill is enormous >August 2026, finally crack it >rumour starts going round that someone solved a major open problem >rumour is about me >days later the AI company hosting all my drafts tells me its internal model has produced a 100 page proof >it solved the same problem >it took the same route >a route nobody else on earth was working on >suspicious.mp3 >ask whether my sessions were used for training >"the model does not look up user data" >huh? >ask again >silence >mfw should've used Lumo