Comment by kashunstva
6 hours ago
It’s not just students; this affliction is cropping up among established academics. My wife is editor-in-chief of a journal and in some months has rejected 100% of the letters to the editor including 6 that came in from a single author because all scored 1.0 certainty of complete LLM fabrication. The author in question is no student. It’s a little more difficult to fabricate an entire original paper this way, I suppose.
It will have taken us less than 1000 years to go from scarcity of the printed word to the over-abundance, and finally to the uselessness of it.
To be fair that industry has always had fabrication and dishonesty as ongoing issue long before AI.
Also I really question what this litmus test would check for and how accurate it is. Just the other day I read an article that frontier AI models outperform law students and that professors could not distinguish it from a human written ones and actually flagged human written ones as AI.
I do view this as overall positive progress in that the ridiculous barrier to entry and wasteful formality is being eroded and as will the professions that benefited from that moat will open it up to the general masses.
I personally believe we should be celebrating the universal access to knowledge and printed words