AI models are now ingesting scholarly content in an attempt to dispel their hallucinations. But another possibility looms: that AI will instead drag down scholarship into its muddy realm. A new essay on my newsletter: “AI Is Coming for Scholarship Next”
@ayjay Thanks for this thoughtful response! I do think that a possible outcome—for scientists at least—is that they simply expose their experimental data and write a much thinner layer over it. After all, most of these science articles aren’t read much by humans, but they are mined for info and for synthetic data purposes. (And, of course, for tenure/promotion/sigh.)