If you run a model locally to work on your area of expertise in mathematics, and you make a discovery, haven't you stood on the shoulders of others that created that model you are using? Playing devil's advocate here, are we only in for human collaboration, but not machine contributions in this case? Scholars get cited, but do they normally get paid for others citing them and using their work to advance their own? I get the whole sneakiness about how these companies like OpenAI built their models upon IP and data without a clear trail of attribution or compensation where it would normally be present. I am not a proponent for either side at the moment. I am trying to grapple with this whole new world of shared knowledge and how it is produced and shared and profited from especially when there is a $1m prize to distribute!

There’s always been a distinction between published work and unpublished.

If my friend showed me some unpublished work (Say 90% of the hardest work toward a significant proof) if I then go finish the remaining 10% and publish the whole thing as mine it isn’t ‘building on the shoulders of giants’ it’s plagiarism/theft.

If he’d published that work first and I took it and found another proof and credited him for his work via citation then that would be fine.