the more people who produce bullshit, the closer the average moves toward bullshit. however, this does not in any way make the bullshit actually good.

Carl T. Bergstrom

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.