one of the models was being portrayed as finding a mathematical proof which was actually in it's training data. The original authors will not get the credit, academic support, exposure and funding they would have gotten otherwise.
If the original authors have published their findings somewhere (journal / conference / arXiv), they will definitely get the credit from other mathematicians.
it's epistemology and source are an important part of it.
I don't know about all AIs, but deepseek does cite sources. You can always cross-check them.