Dr PenOct 28

Good morning from Elsevier. When I open my inbox to be greeted by this, I know the time has come to leave academia. It is rotten to the core, and totally lost sight of its *telos*. Read the article if you like. It is a lost delusion. States "AI is a tool" multiple times. It's not. Its a pattern matching text generator. (Jon Dron wrote a great piece on this recently.)

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https://www.elsevier.com/connect/rethinking-peer-review-in-the-ai-era-with-responsibility-and-transparency

Show threadgrepeOct 28
@DrPen perhaps you missed the point? first, text generators can be tools (wearher you like it or not). second, they repeatedly state there is no replacement for human judgement. and last, what they insinuate is kind of worse than what you suggest: they are talking about using it "responsibly" and immediately state that their current policies forbid you to give (or make?) your manuscript with LLM, bit they will be more than happy to feed it there...
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@grepe this may be of interest https://jondron.ca/just-a-metatool-some-thoughts-why-generative-ais-are-not-tools/
Just a metatool? Some thoughts why generative AIs are not tools

Many people brush generative AI aside as being just a tool. ChatGPT describes itself as such (I asked). I think it’s more complicated than that, and this post is going to be an attempt to explain w…

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Show threadgrepeOct 28
@DrPen ok, i read it. i don't see where the statement you claim (llm's are not tools) is proven there. it seemed more like a free flowing mind dump than some structured argument.
Show threadDr PenOct 28
@grepe well I think we'll have to agree to differ