@bibliolater @ai College students, college students, college students ... I would be far more interested in how many academics use generative AI to cover for their distaste or poor capacity for writing, even their lack of basic literacy, and even more their lack of knowledge about the topic that they are 'writing' about.

I feel like all this focus on students is missing a problem far more serious.

Behind the academics doing this, of course, is the real problem: a system that coerces them to cover up, to pretend that they are literary stars. There's nothing wrong with finding writing difficult or unpleasant if your expertise is in other things. Writing can be outsourced, just like stats and illustration and data collection! If academics could accept that ghostwriters or adding a writer to the research group is ok, maybe they'd feel less pressure to have genAI fake the content as we're seeing happening.