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This is what "research" looks like for many paper-producing groups or individuals, in light of the recent advances in LLMs/AI systems. PSA: this may look tempting! But this is not good, this is not research, and, very much like when I tried to play Quake 3 back in the day, this will not end well.

(as mentioned in the ALT text, this screenshot is not by me, this is the thumbnail from an image search, and is from a YouTube video, youtu.be/cDq2LOQlAG4?...)

When I say "this is not good" let me be more specific: (1) this is not good for academia (destroying the current system before it has a chance to reassess its incentive structure), (2) it is not good for science (flooding the gates with ill-understood results and insightless or badly written proofs)

And (3) this is not even good for the authors! People see through it, and there's a real (and serious) reputational damage to be incurred! Unfortunately, that's the least easy to quantify, but also one very hard to repaired once incurred.