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Dr. Evan J. Gowan
@evangowan.bsky.social
I am a climate scientist, focused on paleoclimate, sea level change and the evolution of Quaternary glaciations. I reconstruct ice sheets using glacial isostatic adjustment, as well as ice sheet modelling. In Japan but have been pretty much everywhere.
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I was reading this paper just now, and thought "the text is written in such a weird way", like, it could not even be explained as a "English as a second language" kind of problem. I get to the end, and found out why the text was weird. #AI#GenerativeAI 🧪

A screen capture of text that states:

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process

Statement: During the preparation of this work the authors used ChatGPT in order to improve the language and readability. After using this tool/service, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and takes full responsibility for the content of the publication.
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Mmalthusjohn.bsky.social

It seems worth questioning why/how the authors and/or editors did not catch the poor writing. One of the trade-offs for using LLM stuff is the *extra* time required after it's used for fact-checking and sense-making. (It is more understandable when authors are not writing in their native language.)

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DEevangowan.bsky.social

Though using Generative AI to write the text of your paper is tempting, especially if your English skills are not great, an author should consider that the text that it generates is really weird.

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AAaida-alvera.bsky.social

Had the same recently, but no acknowledgement. It gave me the impression of wasting my time, reading something during more than one hour and thinking they might have written it in 5 minutes...

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Dr. Evan J. Gowan
@evangowan.bsky.social
I am a climate scientist, focused on paleoclimate, sea level change and the evolution of Quaternary glaciations. I reconstruct ice sheets using glacial isostatic adjustment, as well as ice sheet modelling. In Japan but have been pretty much everywhere.
675 followers695 following339 posts