I just did some primary-school level investigative work using Google Scholar to find out whether the use of generative #AI is genuinely a widespread issue in #AcademicPublishing and, within five minutes, I have cause for despair... 😲 #AcWri #AcademicChatter
If I had nothing better to do this evening, I could find many, many more instances of #AcademicPublishing junk with my not-so-sophisticated detective work... 😭 #AcademicChatter @academicsunite #GenerativeAI
@ElenLeFoll @academicsunite I'm enjoying the series; there's clearly a paper mill aspect that we should worry about; and the for-profit publishers are showing how much value they subtract.
Is there a legit use for LLMs in writing better summaries, abstracts, and other parts of papers?
I certainly read a fair number of papers where the authors can't write, and even an LLM can help make their work readable.
@adamshostack @ElenLeFoll @academicsunite I think there is a legitimate use in polishing writing or in helping drafting an initial structure. This particular example for me is an extremely worrying sign that the authors, the reviewers and the editors did not actually read the paper though...
@nicolaromano @ElenLeFoll @academicsunite Interesting -- I've been using template papers for a long time so haven't needed a structure.