• dave@hal9000
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    514 days 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