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So many of the norms underlying academic culture relied on frictions associated with writing. It was entirely predictable that academia would be profoundly harmed when a machine came along to remove those frictions by making (insincere, inaccurate) communication effortless.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

17/8/26, 9:13 am90 reposts419 likes

Mike

@inkdependence.bsky.social

17 Aug

And now (formerly) good journals are publishing papers written by genAI and giving attribution to a human “author.” It’s sickening.

dailynous.comPhilosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post) (updated) - Daily NousPhilosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...

Social Distancing Cat

@socialdistantcat.bsky.social

17 Aug

Bad ideas can get expensive suits now.

Freg Gralish

@gregfralish.bsky.social

17 Aug

Writing manuscripts always spurred new experiments for me. Writing was the reset that I needed to get off the experimental treadmill that often led to hasty decisions on set up and design.