• disorderly@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    “The poison is in the dose”.

    Also, what an astonishingly uncritical perspective. I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns to raise about LLMs in science, but there’s a reason that researchers are adopting these tools. I suspect it’s because there’s a ton of rote work in the field (literature review, analysis, drafting a document…) and they’re under great pressure to publish on an accelerating cadence.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        9 days ago

        Oh really, and tell us…how much of that grant money goes to the actual scientist who wrote the grant?

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          8 days ago

          None? But that grant money is the only way they can actually do anything.

          Sprinkling AI buzzwords into grant proposals is how the sausage is made.

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      9 days ago

      “I had to drink the poison because I was under pressure”

      Somehow, this doesn’t ring true. Are you defending scientific discovery, or are you defending corporate pressure? Or are you just defending poison? either way, this sounds like bullshit.

      it’s because there’s a ton of rote work in the field

      So now it’s OK just because scientists are suddenly lazy? You gotta be kidding.