• Phoenixz
    15•5 months ago

    It’s not even that they use AI. Used sparingly I think it can be a great asset even.

    The real problem is that were humans and most of us are such lazy assholes that we will use AI for the entire article and we will not even take the time to proofread it, which would have resulted in this nugget not ending up in the final product.

    AI won’t be the end of us, it’s just another tool in a long line of tools. We will be the end of us.

    • dave@hal9000
      5•5 months ago

      It’s like all those scandals in academia recently with people catching “peer-reviewed” articles that have this sentence in them: “as a large language model, I cannot X”:

      1. scientists, especially if English is not their native language, getting a little help from AI to more clearly express their thoughts: OK to good
      2. scientists with actual results to share wholesale letting AI do the explaining for them: not so good, maybe OK
      3. scientists just using AI to take half ass lab results into something publishable: bad
      4. journals that rely on the free labor of other academics to peer review also not bothering to check: really bad
      5. mega corporations who charge bazillion dollars to allow access to reading publicly funded research happily allowing all of that to go through without the very basic of paying a copy editor a minimum wage to Ctrl + F for “As a large language model”: straight up evil