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I'm fine with using AI for code, where the quality will likely be better than those of academics.

But writing.. FFS everything I see is just AI slop. And I only realize when I start wondering why the paper is going and going and saying nothing, and then pangram tells me that everything past the intro is just AI. :/

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The glass half full take is that we are very lucky that there is some much literature that pre-dates LLMs. Our brains are tuned to enjoy that more. People who grow up with LLM slop from the start won't necessarily see it the same way.

Yup. I can read novels from the 1st century [1] or from the 19th century [2] or from the 1970s [3] for the rest of my life (well, until they get banned).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callirhoe_(novel)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_and_Deviltry

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