Why do people want AI to produce academic text (papers, reviews)?
If we humans aren't even willing to write those texts, why in the bloody hell would we want to read them?
How about: if no one cares about a text, let's leave it be. No need to review literally everything.🙅🙅♀️
#AcademicSky #SciPub
If we humans aren't even willing to write those texts, why in the bloody hell would we want to read them?
How about: if no one cares about a text, let's leave it be. No need to review literally everything.🙅🙅♀️
#AcademicSky #SciPub
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Shahan Ali Memon
🚨 I recently came across a weird case of #AI in #preprints, with implications for burdening #SciComm with AI-mediated #PredatoryPublishing
What did I find? Issues with the article, questionable behavior by the author, indexing problems, and AI's potential for streamlining predatory publishing.
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What did I find? Issues with the article, questionable behavior by the author, indexing problems, and AI's potential for streamlining predatory publishing.
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I thought: "god... we already have enough generic podcasts I don't listen to. Why would I want podcasts no one even bothered to write?"
We keep missing the point of creative ventures. It's the journey, not the destination 🖋️🙃
This matches uses I have seen of people creating AI podcasts of their own articles.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/acasilli_notebooklm-activity-7249007173890912256-RU2i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
We need to change the mantra to "Publish AND Perish" and focus only on publishing new insights and syntheses.
When such AI use is blatant, it should be considered scientific misconduct, almost on the level of fabricating results.
- The case under consideration is blatant academic fraud.
- it's their grift and they want to sell it.
- people don't decide what to write, e.g. grant applications you're forced to do.
- because people need help with their language or ideas condensation.
I also don't know of a single person "forced" to write a grant application. If you have a research idea and want it funded, you write a grant application. If you don't have an idea worth writing up, don't?
I guess where I'm coming from is: if you want to do research, you're not forced to write grants. You're writing grants because you want to (ultimately, even if it sucks - and it does).
We choose* to be part of this insane rat race, right?