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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Not really his research when using an LLM to compile the content, now is it...
Is it the LLM's research? Do guns shoot people?
Researching other people's work is still research. If they start claiming other people's work is their work without having added any value, then it's obviously stealing, but otherwisethis argument makes no sense.
When you type "dear robot girlfriend, do my work, make no mistakes" into a chatbot window, and then use the slop that the average word predicting machine shat out, you're not doing research. In fact, you're not doing anything besides frying your brain while frying the planet.
It's not "research" at all, but whatever that is, llm generated it, you did nothing.
So if I just quickly search Wikipedia or list through a few books, is that a research? How many prompts or hours until my unnamed activity becomes research? Is it a hard limit, or just based on how hateful you're feeling for the day?
Well that's a nice big strawman you got there. Lotta assumptions
If he only used it as a tool, I'd still say it's his work. It should of course be included in the methodology section.
But considering he lost 2 years worth of work, just because his chats got wiped? That's more than just a tool
He lost his chat logs. I was going to mock him him for not backing up his work but I'm not sure I want to punch down on someone who considers his LLM chat logs research.
Wait wait wait. ALL of his research was in his chat looks in chat gpt‽ So NONE of his research was outside of chat gpt.
I'm not sure it's meaningful to call that research
ChatGPT did the world a favour it seems
Nah, that's fucking stupid on his part and he should 100% know better.
Same for me but the reason is different
... I don't want to punch down someone for not using backups while I probably have a lot stored on sites and ready to be wiped accidentally
He basically deleted them
Carefully structured academic work?
AI slop has been given a facelift!
ChatGPT's chat history isn't "carefully structured academic work".
He basically used the 0/0/0 backup strategy, with not even one instance of his data saved anywhere.
As someone who knows a decent bit about machine learning, I can say Dr. Collier seems to know very little of how it works on a technical level, which presents such a beautiful contrast when I'm watching her be fucking dead-on about its societal consequences. Seeing someone who isn't familiar with the field but still knows what they're talking about is so cathartic in a subject strewn with misconceptions from laypeople. Angela's integrity is really admirable; you can tell she takes a lot of care not to overstep into areas she doesn't understand.
Did you write this comment yourself?
At some point, we need to stop caring or stop interacting entirely. It's so exhausting to have to question the authenticity of every interaction.
we need to stop caring
We should never stop caring.
I always do. I write as a hobby, and I'm not stuck here, so I don't see why I'd be here if I didn't give enough of a shit to write what I want.
He disabled the feature because he “wanted to see whether I would still have access to all of the model’s functions if I did not provide OpenAI with my data.”
Well I guess you found out
He should write a paper about it.
"ChatGPT, write a paper about how you deleted all the previous papers you wrote for me"
He did, check the link (well, "paper")
"Scientist"
"Ay GPT, research this shit for me."
The modern day version of "the dog ate my homework!".
But now you can also question the validity of his papers, the validity of his educational value in general, and, if you do research, the safety issues of having no contingency plans in case an hypothesis fails..
Yeah, the guy's credentials should be scrutinized if not revoked. This is a disgrace.
And it's the one who is public about it, imagine how many of his colleagues do the same, but have enough brain cells left to not actually brag about it
Back your shit up!
i do backups 3 times a year. i hope that's enough
I eat a lot of cheese. My shit is already backed up.
lól
An accent!? On my "lot of laughter"!?