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  • basically most of internet now is ai slop
    by 0xEnsp1re
  • just because it was produced with the help of Ai does not mean it's slop. Slop means it's also wrong. The math may very well be interesting and correct.
    by paulpauper
  • did anyone read through them to determine whether they're slop? or is that just someone's opinion?

    regardless of whether they are or not, the speed at which they can be cranked out with the help of LLMs, means that the signal to noise ratio is getting lower by the day, and soon it might be hard to find any signal. The outcome I worry about is it destroying confidence in academic publishing (which is already suffering from a lack of confidence).

    by insane_dreamer
  • The academic writing standard is the most obtuse and painful way of writing I have ever done. I would use AI for that as well.
    by floro
  • Academic publishing is in deep crisis. It didn't start with AI, and it probably wouldn't end with it. The crisis came from trying to turn academia into a factory of some sort.

    I coauthored 4 papers this Summer. All bona fide: no AI slop, no fake data, all genuine research papers. But the substance of each is barely enough for a paragraph in a paper I would have gladly written instead.

    But I have KPIs. And KPIs don't care about quality, quality is unaccountable. So it is in my best interest to publish a lot of "barely science" instead of spending a year or two writing a good paper that will take another year to publish, and by then my contract will end, and I'll have no numbers to show.

    by okaleniuk

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