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Tao's "toxic waste" metaphor points to two problems: at the cognitive level, a flood of low-quality machine-generated proofs into the literature raises the cost of screening and verification and pollutes the knowledge ecosystem; at the incentive level, if honors and resources flow to AI-assisted brute-force solutions, young mathematicians' motivation to pursue elegant methods will be diluted.
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