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mrob 19 hours ago

Even if you can reject the aesthetic argument for non-fiction works (although read some of Dijkstra's papers for a good counterargument), it is still a problem because it breaks an important quality signalling mechanism.

Pre-LLMs, a paper with no spelling or grammar errors showed that somebody had put effort into writing and editing it. If they cared about the presentation, they probably also cared about the content. LLMs routinely produce nonsense that looks superficially like high-quality work.

There are far too many papers to read all of them. LLM slop is evidence that something is probably low quality. As the saying goes, "if you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading." The rare outliers will get enough citations and recommendations to overcome this filter.

chungusamongus 19 hours ago | parent [-]

This is fallacious. The fact that someone used LLM to write their paper does not negate its findings.

grey-area 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It certainly casts suspicion on the ‘findings’ which may well be hallucinated or subtly wrong.

Retr0id 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not the point being made.

mghackerlady 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not the point though, the point being made ist that an LLM written paper very likely doesn't actually find something despite looking like it does on the surface