• Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    I get that this is worse (or at least faster) because of LLMs but academia has been full of fraudulent articles for my adult life, another “the problem is capitalism” thing but I don’t think it is fair to lay it at LLMs feet

    • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      If you work in academia you will see how much worse this is. It’s not just a few fields it’s a flood. Even real papers now have incoherent prose, llms undermine review and amplify bias, publishers like elsiever have pushed llm based definition tools which give catagorically incorrect definitions that mean terminology becomes confused as people learn from them. It’s bad

      • AF_R [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Online leftists will make fun of how the world ignored climate scientists desperately screaming about armageddon and then turn around and say the professionals working in fields saying LLMs will cause the downfall of all labor productivity are wrong because we have degrees and work in the field we’re talking about and that’s not proletarian