Comment by JamesBarney
19 hours ago
Honestly academic writing is the only place where I think AI slop might be an improvement over the status quo writing style.
19 hours ago
Honestly academic writing is the only place where I think AI slop might be an improvement over the status quo writing style.
As an academic who is forced to review AI-generated conference/journal submissions, I can assure you this is not the case. LLM-heavy papers are terrible.
Even if they manage to avoid straight-up factual incorrectness, the writing is full of ambiguities and vagueness when you look closely. Meanwhile, space is wasted repeating the same claim in multiple ways, or explaining something simple.
They also seem unable to resist the hype/advertising tone, overselling the contribution while exaggerating the limitations of related work.
I would much rather read grammatically incorrect or awkward sentences.
While academic writing does have a few pointless historical conventions, the huge majority of "status quo writing style" is a logical consequence of 1) minimizing ambiguity, 2) organizing ideas coherently, 3) distinguishing opinion/interpretation from fact, and 4) providing enough detail to be reproducible.