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"Over the past three years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a
profound impact on society. AI’s impact on human writing, in particular, has
been enormous.
The large language models that power AI tools such as ChatGPT are trained on a
wide variety of textual data, and they can now produce complex and high-quality
texts of their own.
Most importantly, the widespread use of AI tools has resulted in
hyperproduction of so-called “AI slop”: low-quality AI-generated outputs
produced with minimal or even no human effort.
Much has been said about what AI writing means for education, work, and
culture. But what about science? Does AI improve academic writing, or does it
merely produce “scientific AI slop”?
According to a new study by researchers from UC Berkeley and Cornell
University, published in
Science, the slop is winning."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
