I have watched corpos loot and burn the commons I loved for the past 20 years. Kicking over the last few standing artefacts of digital culture is tragic, but the real thing that drives me up the wall is the lasting damage to written work that will remain after this fiasco.
Academia is full of fraudulent and incoherent articles and it will take a generation or two to return the fidelity of knowledge, meanwhile real work will never be found as it is buried in a tide of slop.
Entire pursuits and careers are having the next generation of curators and contributors stillborn as slop ruins learning and devalues training of people.
I get that this is worse (or at least faster) because of LLMs but academia has been full of fraudulent articles for my adult life, another “the problem is capitalism” thing but I don’t think it is fair to lay it at LLMs feet
If you work in academia you will see how much worse this is. It’s not just a few fields it’s a flood. Even real papers now have incoherent prose, llms undermine review and amplify bias, publishers like elsiever have pushed llm based definition tools which give catagorically incorrect definitions that mean terminology becomes confused as people learn from them. It’s bad
Online leftists will make fun of how the world ignored climate scientists desperately screaming about armageddon and then turn around and say the professionals working in fields saying LLMs will cause the downfall of all labor productivity are wrong because we have degrees and work in the field we’re talking about and that’s not proletarian
I have watched corpos loot and burn the commons I loved for the past 20 years. Kicking over the last few standing artefacts of digital culture is tragic, but the real thing that drives me up the wall is the lasting damage to written work that will remain after this fiasco.
Academia is full of fraudulent and incoherent articles and it will take a generation or two to return the fidelity of knowledge, meanwhile real work will never be found as it is buried in a tide of slop.
Entire pursuits and careers are having the next generation of curators and contributors stillborn as slop ruins learning and devalues training of people.
I get that this is worse (or at least faster) because of LLMs but academia has been full of fraudulent articles for my adult life, another “the problem is capitalism” thing but I don’t think it is fair to lay it at LLMs feet
If you work in academia you will see how much worse this is. It’s not just a few fields it’s a flood. Even real papers now have incoherent prose, llms undermine review and amplify bias, publishers like elsiever have pushed llm based definition tools which give catagorically incorrect definitions that mean terminology becomes confused as people learn from them. It’s bad
Online leftists will make fun of how the world ignored climate scientists desperately screaming about armageddon and then turn around and say the professionals working in fields saying LLMs will cause the downfall of all labor productivity are wrong because we have degrees and work in the field we’re talking about and that’s not proletarian
that feels like a mischaracterization of my stance = /