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submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago

Masto reply guy: "is it not better to train LLM on proper academic papers rather than random rants on Twitter and Reddit?"

well, actually, it's better to train them not at all, and if anyone advocates their use, to kick them in the nads repeatedly

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fuck this horseshit, half of my publishing is with wiley. is there a shop out there that doesn't feed all of its papers to wisdom woodchipper?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know of one that has definitively said that they won't.

Fuck it, we're going to have to found a publisher.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Journal of Awful Studies

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it's always nice when a story just comes in on the twitter and nobody else has covered it yet

b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk

correct, academic publishing

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

basically the wal-mart version of the Reapers from Mass Effect.