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[–] [email protected] 173 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Hot take: this behavior should get you blacklisted from contributing to any peer-reviewed journal for life. That's repugnant.

[–] JohnDClay 80 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don't think it's even a hot take

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is a hot take: I think it’s totally fine if researchers who have done their studies and collected their data want to use AI as a language tool to bolster their paper. Some researchers legitimately have a hard time communicating, or English is a second language, and would benefit from a pass through AI enhancement, or as a translation tool if they’re more comfortable writing in their native language. However, I am not in favor of submitting it without review of every single word, or using it to synthesize new concepts / farm citations. That’s not research because anybody can do it.

[–] kwomp2 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is also a somehow hot take because it kinda puts the burden of systemic misconfiguration on individuals shoulders (oh hey we've seen this before, after and all the time, hashtag (neo)liberalism).

I agree people who did that fucked up. But having your existence as an academic, your job, maybe the only thing you're good at rely on publishing a ton of papers no matter what should be taken into account.

This is a huge problem for science not just since LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, when you build the hoops you must jump through to maintain your livelihood to be based on a publication machine is it any surprise people gameify it and exploit what they can

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