Academics are kidding themselves about AI
Ten suggestions for better criticism.
As soon as I see someone call a large language model a ‘bullshit generator’, I know to take whatever follows with a grain of salt. Usually that person is an academic.
AI essay writing reveals problems with universities, not students
Disclaimer: not written with AI.
How AI undermines academic norms
Do standard practices ensure high university standards anymore?
Critique of Pure Reasoning Models
Reasoners are imperfect. Perfection was never the requirement.
Can Good Writing Be Generative?
Expert-level AI writing emerges through fine-tuning on high-quality books.
Experts preferred human writing in 82.7% of cases under the in-context prompting condition, while 62% preferred AI writing after fine-tuning on authors’ complete works.
The AI Paradox in Academia: When Writing Too Well Raises Red Flags
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Google Scholar Is Doomed
Hannah Shelley on the deteriorating usefulness of an indispensable academic search tool.
Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
Maggie Appleton on chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions.