alt Hacker NewsSure, just as long as we don't blame LLMs.
Blame people, bad actors, systems of incentives, the gods, the devils, but never broach the fault of LLMs and their wide spread abuse.
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cyco130 • last Saturday at 10:32 PM
LLMs are not people. We can’t blame them.
wvenable • last Saturday at 8:12 PM
What would be the point of blaming LLMs? What would that accomplish? What does it even mean to blame LLMs?
LLMs are not submitting these papers on their own, people are. As far as I'm concerned, whatever blame exists rests on those people and the system that rewards them.
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xandrius • last Saturday at 10:57 PM
I blame keyboards, without them there wouldn't be these problems.
anonym29 • last Saturday at 10:45 PM
This was a problem before LLMs and it would remain a problem if you could magically make all of them disappear.
LLMs are not the root of the problem here.
LLMs are tools that make it easier to hack incentives, but you still need a person to decide that they'll use an LLM t do so.
Blaming LLMs is unproductive. They are not going anywhere (especially since open source LLMs are so good.)
If we want to achieve real change, we need to accept that they exist, understand how that changes the scientific landscape and our options to go from here.