Post #3894848

2026-07-17 19:59 UTC

Also, although synthetic text is never a good idea, this particular type of synthetic text (the sycophantic type) results from specific design decisions rather than any inherent properties of LLMs. >>

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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-07-17 20:00

Agreed that AI slop is a problem for scientific publishing (and the information ecosystem at large). But what's missing here is any mention of consequences for those who produce and submit it. "AI" errors don't just appear in papers. They are there because of specific decisions, most proximally the decision by authors (or maybe "authors") to use extruded academic-looking text in their submissions. >>

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@Kudusch@social.tchncs.de 2026-07-17 22:03

@emilymbender@dair-community.social In my experience, people tend to forget about this important difference between LLMs in general and the products they are finetuned into/how they are presented. Great thread, thank you! I’ll share this with my colleagues!

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