‘Academic publishing is yet another example of the artificial.
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‘Academic publishing is yet another example of the artificial. We’ve let the epiphenomenal outputs of doing science, of generating knowledge, of thinking, stand in for the phenomenon itself.
The idea that using “AI” as a shortcut for human work will produce a de-skilling of new generations is now well-understood.’
https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/for-profit-academic-publishers-love
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Mike Neumann :pci:replied to John Spurlock last edited by
@js I sat next to a woman at the airport bar last month. She was working her way through a few old fashioned bevs while punching in prompts to some LLM like "as a second year product marketing major, summarize the objectives of <insert major women's clothing brand here> for 2025 based on public information."
Then she'd paste the output into a separate Word doc (online, linked to Microsoft's Office 365 'AI') and ask the Microsoft LLM" to improve the prompt in adjacent direction.
Tossed salad.
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John Spurlockreplied to Mike Neumann :pci: last edited by
@mikeneumann bleak
but if the incentive is to "produce plausible documents", why not use the new tools specifically designed to do that?
will be interesting to see what language is used (if any) to tweak the incentives
