• Allero@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    On the side of authors, please, PLEASE do not use any AI tools when writing your articles.

    It’s actually very easy to get into Q3-Q4 with absolute crap, and let’s just respect each other - not to mention keep your reputation :)

    I know it’s tedious and I don’t like sitting at 4am writing articles, either, but yeah - it’s important :D

    That’s not to say journals shouldn’t do a better job.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      7 months ago

      If you use it to just get started, but actually read it and have the expertise to fix mistakes and make it relevant, it’s probably fine. Not necessarily because it’s faster, but because some people just suck at getting started, and having nonsense to correct is easier to start correcting than turning whitespace into something.

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        7 months ago

        You don’t. AI will lead you astray.

        Reading it and paraphrasing is ok if you get stuck. But if you use it before thinking, you won’t get to thinking and write a piece of shit.

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          7 months ago

          Its just an intro. Who cares if its shit? Just need words there that sound like the author wrote them because its expected in case someone accidentally reads it instead of skipping it as usual.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, fair enough. Someone here in the thread already said they use LLMs to just outline what to write and how, and then start something along these lines from scratch