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theoldgreybeard ◴[] No.46182214[source]
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.

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1. constantcrying ◴[] No.46183436[source]
Absolutely correct. The real issue is that these people can avoid punishment. If you do not care enough about your paper to even verify the existence of citations, then you obviously should not have a job as a scientist.

Taking an academic who does something like that seriously, seem impossible. At best he is someone who is neglecting his most basic duties as an academic, at worst he is just a fraudster. In both cases he should be shunned and excluded.