alt Hacker NewsFound it interesting and engaging, but having a CS professor at Colombia putting their name to AI “slop” is a bit unnerving. If they are writing papers for work you would hope they would enjoy the process of thinking and writing (journaling) instead of using ChatGPT.
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Y'all, we need to get away from calling everything written by an LLM "slop". To me, slop is text for the purpose of padding content or getting clicks or whatever. Whether or not this was written in full or in part or 100% by a human who sounds like an LLM, the content here was interesting to think about and was organized and easy to read. Maybe I'm the only person reading past the word choice and grammar to extract the ideas from the article instead of playing a game of "human or AI" with every piece of writing I see.
Writing the paper is a very small part of the research. It's entirely likely that - like many of their students - they love the research but hate writing papers. They are very different skill sets.
Just give me an arXiv paper and I'll summarize it myself!
Yeah. The article was clearly "enhanced" with an LLM. Too many inane "this is not just A; this is B" sentences. Also, "why this matters" as final subheading. Fail.