⟳ Репост от Dr. Adeene Denton
Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predictsResearch suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.www.nature.comCarl T. Bergstrom1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.