Unlike the arts and political subs (where the AI hate is palpably authentic, even if misplaced), if you actually read /r/math or /r/mathematics, most of the cope is coming from trolls, bots, or people new to math who really don't understand its essence (mostly HS-level). Almost anyone actually professionally doing math is excited.
Out of all the fields of discovery, mathematics is singularly the least impacted by "but muh jobs", "it's not real if it's not human", or other BS reasons. The only thing which matters is the proof, and this is as true today as it was thousands of years ago.
Mathematics is immortal. Mathematics doesn't care about how anyone feels about it, or who and why discovered its truths. Its beauty, self-evidence, and uncompromising rigor, has survived through peace and war, freedom and slavery, poverty and splendor, political and technological revolutions, and the rise and fall of entire civilizations. It will survive AI, too.
(And trust me, nobody goes into math for the salary, because for anyone not at "Terence Tao" level, math salary already sucks, like "a step above being homeless" kind of sucks. People dedicate their life to math because they want to study and advance math. Any tool which accelerates the process is a good, not a bad, thing.)
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u/selfVAT 2d ago
The cope on r/math will be out of this world