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How AI is transforming research: More papers, less quality, and a strained review system
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transforming as in turning it into slop. Before AI it pretty much was low quality slop, from what ive heard on some yt videos, they explained how some papers are just fluff pieces. plus the amount papers a potential hire for a faculty have to write is in the dozens on thier CVs, so likely they arnt looking for quality, but Quantity OF papers. some research papers i read are quite low info or repeated from other research