[HN Gopher] ChatGPT in Academic Writing
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       ChatGPT in Academic Writing
        
       Author : WolfOliver
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-03-05 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | nestorD wrote:
       | I am very tempted to try writing my next paper (maybe a low stake
       | arxiv publication) with ChatGPT.
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       | Having done the research and gotten the results, asking it to
       | turn draft paragraphs into properly written text.
        
         | j45 wrote:
         | There's probably better writing tools to help with that than
         | gpt.
        
         | corobo wrote:
         | You've done all the work only to be caught out by automated AI
         | recognition[1] later.
         | 
         | Low stakes should probably be fine but to anyone using it for
         | something important at least do the old rewrite-to-not-be-
         | plagiarism trick.
         | 
         | I have to imagine there's going to be a lot of people
         | regretting using GPT shortcuts soon. It'll be the equivalent of
         | copy pasting Wikipedia by the end of the year I bet.
         | 
         | The next big Google search ranking update should be fun too
         | with all the AI content mills popping up right now. If you see
         | your rival using AI for their blog posts, start writing real
         | content in preparation :D
         | 
         | [1] https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-
         | ai-...
        
           | Der_Einzige wrote:
           | These watermarking/"detect if someone is AI" techniques are
           | trash, and OpenAI even admits it on their post about this. No
           | proposed or implemented technique outside of this is even
           | close to robust, reliable, or accurate.
           | 
           | It is trivial to get around even the best of these
           | techniques. This is a cat and mouse game with a fat, lazy cat
           | and really motivated, olympic tier mice.
        
             | corobo wrote:
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           | WolfOliver wrote:
           | I guess it will be cycle of finding a way around those
           | classifiers and fixing classifiers.
        
         | JorgeGT wrote:
         | Forget the papers, if this thing writes grant applications...
        
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