alt Hacker NewsMany people are bad at writing, including scientists. Improvements could be articulating a concept in a way that the reader will understand it clearly.
Many people are bad at writing, including scientists. Improvements could be articulating a concept in a way that the reader will understand it clearly.
My hypothesis is that an LLM’s ability to concoct prose that will convince even an expert of the validity of an idea is largely independent of the LLM’s ability to validate the idea itself, or whether the idea is correct in the first place. Especially if it’s being prompted to do the former, not the latter.
My anecdotal evidence is the LLM-generated, inchoate technical dross that is routinely upvoted onto the hn front page. Much of it isn’t even coherent enough to be wrong, but the readership here finds it interesting!