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Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies (english.elpais.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

"Right now it is impossible to know how big this gray area is, because scientific journals do not require authors to declare the use of ChatGPT, there is very little transparency […]"

This might help to get statistics on how many people eg. use ChatGPT to brush up language, but I doubt anybody who uses the unedited output of an LLM to actually "write" large parts of an article is likely to declare they did it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I’m using ChatGPT to help me simplify the very terse language of an academic paper, and I must say I’m super unimpressed so far. I don’t understand how people could possibly use it to write anything of substance given the output it generates; it generates redundant, overlapping, and superficial responses that need to be heavily edited to make sense. I’m pretty much better off trying to decipher the paper by myself.

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