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JadeNByesterday at 6:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

Which part is a sin? Using LLMs to deal with a lack of English-language fluency? I am a scientist (actually a mathematician, if it matters), and, if that's the way to deal with the practical hegemony of English in the scientific literature, then I have no problem with it. Rather that than people with important ideas can't get them before the scientific community. As long as the authors personally check and stand behind the scientific content of their papers, what do I care how the exposition was produced, especially if the role of LLMs is properly disclosed?


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jazzyjacksontoday at 2:10 PM

It would be nice if scientists could write and publish in their first language. If a machine translation brings it to a wider audience fine, but the lack of disclosure of who authored the paper is a problem.

never_inlinetoday at 4:47 AM

https://lists.isocpp.org/std-proposals/att-0486/Reply_to_Zer...

Here's a paper by a non native English speaker. The lack of the formal style doesn't cause any issue. Preciseness is what matters.

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slopinthebagyesterday at 6:07 PM

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