Against the Quantification of Integrity
When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language.
💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking.
"It's not x, it's y."
Large Language
That’s one way, but for stuff like papers doing stuff like looking for fabricated data would be the best approach in my opinion. You can extract facts from the paper, and then validate that they’re not hallucinated. And that can be done largely in automated fashion.
Writing and reading texts has a primary social function, communication. Letting the LLM expand your idea into an essay goes against that social function.
I disagree, what matters to me is that language stimulates parts of my brain which then translates into having new ideas. I absolutely do not care whether the text was written by a human or not here. The only question is whether it helped my understand something or framed it in a useful way.
Treating an essay written by expert, an essay by a crank and 100 essays written by LLMs leads not to an intellectual community. It leads to self delusion if you just pick whatever tickles your fancy.
Nowhere did I suggest anything of the sort. In fact, I was quite clear that focus should be on the quality of the content rather than style. Sounds like you’re arguing with a mirror here.