Comment by alexpotato

I work with several researchers (primarily working on consensus protocols etc).

We were discussing research in general and I asked them: "Do you prefer the writing of the papers or the research?"

They, almost unanimously, agreed that they preferred the research. This makes sense as if they preferred writing they probably would have chosen another profession.

I say this b/c having LLMs available to turn research diagrams, code etc into a paper (or at least the starting point of a paper) will probably lead to MORE quality research papers. This is b/c I'm sure there was some friction in a researcher's mind of "I would love to do the research on this but don't want the trouble of writing the paper".

Put another way: on a 2D plot with one axis being the skills as a researcher and the other being hatred of writing, LLMs may "unlock" the people high on both axes to get more papers out.

Post Script: I agree that this could also lead to more BAD papers but the net may turn out to be positive in the long run.