Mastodawn

For today's WTF moment - a team from an established university (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) developed software that promises to automatically generate "conference-ready" academic papers from the user "chatting an idea" to OpenClaw:

https://github.com/aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

Apparently this is also the top trending repo on Github now, with over 400 forks already. What a time to be alive 😱 ...

GitHub - aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw: Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞

Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞 - aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

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Thorsted Mar 17

@bitsgalore Now you tell me after I submitted my fully incoherent iPres paper yesterday! I wonder if conferences will have to explicitly ban this type of content or detect it at submission time?

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Johan van der Knijff Mar 18

@Thorsted You could have saved yourself some time there! But seriously, yes I think this should definitely be banned, but not sure how easy it is to detect this type of content. In any case this will add to the (already heavy) burden of work by reviewers and editors.

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the roamer Mar 17

@bitsgalore

It does feel like the end times, doesn't it.

What makes this so hard for me to process is the utter lack of intellectual integrity, in a profession that is entirely based on presuming integrity. I should be used to it by now, but each new manifestation shocks me yet again.

#StopTheAICorruption

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Johan van der Knijff Mar 18

@the_roamer It's a really depressing state of affairs. It's also beyond me how anyone from a "serious" (whatever that might mean these days) research institute thinks this is a good idea.