There's not enough "fuck you"s in the world to react to this shit. #LLMs should be tools used in the service of people; what in the world is this proposal to make people work for LLMs?!
Any and all changes to scientific publishing needs to be for so that other people can access them and understand them.
And the single most important change would be for Nature and other publishers not to charge 29.99 USD for a shitty 4-paragraph essay that they didn't pay for themselves.
@eliocamp "You should fundamentally change the way you write scientific papers so that people don't have to bother reading your paper and instead can ask an LLM to summarize it" is an interesting take.
@eliocamp On the other hand pondering a world where academic papers can submit a separate file/field for the AI summary, and everyone writing a paper starts filling this space with 4K of random binary data including the EICAR virus string, malformed UTF-8, garbage data and libelous statements about past and current U.S. Presidents
Woke: filling the field with adversarial data that poisons the LLM so it returns sociology papers for physics queries and bad AO3 slashfic for anything computer-related.
@tess@eliocamp Well that's good too, it's just what I'm hoping is if you can trick the LLM engine into generating invalid UTF-8, you will cause some critical part of it to stop functioning altogether when the bad UTF-8 crosses an internal boundary
Anyone remember that ridiculous paper that said low gut serotonin was the cause of Long Covid? That's the type of convoluted, low quality work one should expect from over-reliance on LLMs in the research space. If we aren't careful, LLMs will usher us into a new dark age where it becomes impossible to separate truth from fiction.
@eliocamp If LLMs are so clever (sarcasm!), why can't they understand the format of a cited reference? After all, it's really just a special format of hyperlink!
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