• blakestacey@awful.systems
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    Masto reply guy: “is it not better to train LLM on proper academic papers rather than random rants on Twitter and Reddit?”

    well, actually, it’s better to train them not at all, and if anyone advocates their use, to kick them in the nads repeatedly

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    fuck this horseshit, half of my publishing is with wiley. is there a shop out there that doesn’t feed all of its papers to wisdom woodchipper?

  • _bcron@lemmy.world
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    Researchers are being told to work faster to feed some LLM so it can get butchered and fed to people who can’t be bothered to glaze over a single paper, so they can regurgitate it and say “I did the research”. I bet researchers love this

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    Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      it’s always nice when a story just comes in on the twitter and nobody else has covered it yet

      b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk

      correct, academic publishing