Comment by flumpcakes

This is terrible for Science.

I'm sorry, but publishing is hard, and it should be hard. There is a work function that requires effort to write a paper. We've been dealing with low quality mass-produced papers from certain regions of the planet for decades (which, it appears, are now producing decent papers too).

All this AI tooling will do is lower the effort to the point that complete automated nonsense will now flood in and it will need to be read and filtered by humans. This is already challenging.

Looking elsewhere in society, AI tools are already being used to produce scams and phishing attacks more effective than ever before.

Whole new arenas of abuse are now rife, with the cost of producing fake pornography of real people (what should be considered sexual abuse crime) at mere cents.

We live in a little microcosm where we can see the benefits of AI because tech jobs are mostly about automation and making the impossible (or expensive) possible (or cheap).

I wish more people would talk about the societal issues AI is introducing. My worthless opinion is that prism is not a good thing.