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
@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...
The authors hail from Hadassah Medical Center. in Israel, and Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education, Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program
@ElenLeFoll@academicsunite Yes, last time I had a little python project for the weekend it turned into a two year long still unfinished tour de force... but still, I've been wanting to learn a bit more about text mining from articles and this is as good an excuse as anything 🙂