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cliffle Mar 15, 2024

Elsevier, everyone's favorite copyright maximalist closed-access publisher, argues that their high costs are necessary because they're the arbiter of quality.

The arbiter of quality keeps publishing LLM-written papers. Thanks for making my argument for me, Elsevier! They didn't even read it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298

"In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model."

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Joseph Cooper Mar 15, 2024

@cliffle I'm not sure if it was that paper but I saw one this week where the very first sentence started something like "Certainly, an argument for ... could start..." in that LLM chatbot style.

The "authors" hadn't even read it, apparently!

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GLC Mar 16, 2024

@grodin @cliffle

Not the same one. See #RetractionWatch at https://retractionwatch.com/2024/03/16/weekend-reads-a-paper-written-by-chatgpt-goes-viral-the-gino-misconduct-report-superconductivity-scandal/#more-128938
(first one under "Here's what's happening elsewhere").

Lots going on.

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John Carlos Baez Mar 16, 2024

@glc -Elsevier has now changed this other paper, but it looked like this;

@grodin @cliffle

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Joseph Cooper

@johncarlosbaez @glc @cliffle that was it!

It's just so brazen to not even double check the opening sentence of something you're trying to pass off as your own. Were they rushing _that much_ to submit??