Comment by jll29

11 hours ago

I totally agree. I spend my whole day from getting up to going to bed (not before reading HN!) on reviews for a conference I'm co-organizing later this year.

So I was not amused about this announcement at all, however easy it may make my own life as an author (I'm pretty happy to do my own literature search, thank you very much).

Also remember, we have no guarantee that these tools will still exist tomorrow, all these AI companies are constantly pivoting and throwing a lot of things at the wall to see what sticks.

OpenAI chose not to build a serious product, as there is no integration with the ACM DL, the IEEE DL, SpringerNatureLink, the ACL Anthology, Wiley, Cambridge/Oxford/Harvard University Press etc. - only papers that are not peer reviewed (arXiv.org) are available/have been integrated. Expect a flood of BS your way.

When my student submit a piece of writing, I can ask them to orally defend their opus maximum (more and more often, ChatGPT's...); I can't do the same with anonymous authors.

Speaking of conferences, might this not be the way to judge this work? You could imagine only orally defended work to be publishable, or at least have the prestige of vetting, in a bit of an old-school science revival.