Regardless, I blame the science industry as a whole rather than A.I. The pressure to produce papers is dumb. Why should we force publications? I think we all have had that uncomfortable feeling that - even prior to A.I. - some papers were more fluff than fact. For every instance of a paper being discredited for manipulating data (or just incorrectly running the stats), I’m sure there are at least a few others that slipped under the radar. And of course this depends heavily on your topic, publication, and how radical your paper alters your science.
I got my master’s and my wife got her PhD. Both of us got them in stem fields from public universities. We’ve been around a lot of the science journal obsession and I think it’s a problem. It’s not only wasting our own time for reviewing papers that frankly don’t need to be written. But it’s wasting the time of our future successors who must now wade through the garbage to find truth.
Yes A.I. is a problem. Yes it should be checked. But we’ve been pointlessly driving people to get published and it’s making it much harder to see through the A.I. driven BS.
More like A.I. is polluting our science?
Regardless, I blame the science industry as a whole rather than A.I. The pressure to produce papers is dumb. Why should we force publications? I think we all have had that uncomfortable feeling that - even prior to A.I. - some papers were more fluff than fact. For every instance of a paper being discredited for manipulating data (or just incorrectly running the stats), I’m sure there are at least a few others that slipped under the radar. And of course this depends heavily on your topic, publication, and how radical your paper alters your science.
I got my master’s and my wife got her PhD. Both of us got them in stem fields from public universities. We’ve been around a lot of the science journal obsession and I think it’s a problem. It’s not only wasting our own time for reviewing papers that frankly don’t need to be written. But it’s wasting the time of our future successors who must now wade through the garbage to find truth.
Yes A.I. is a problem. Yes it should be checked. But we’ve been pointlessly driving people to get published and it’s making it much harder to see through the A.I. driven BS.
Idk am I way off base here?