Comment by doctorpangloss 5 days ago
It seems bad for OpenAI to make this about latex documents, which will be now associated, visually, with AI slop. The opposite of what anyone wants really. Nobody wants you to know they used a chatbot!
don't think so. I think latex was one of academics' earlier use cases of chatgpt, back in 2023. That's when I started noticing tables in every submitted paper looking way more sophisticated than they ever did. (The other early use case of course being grammar/spelling. Overnight everyone got fluent and typos disappeared.)
LaTeX is already standard in fields that have math notation, perhaps others as well. I guess the promise is that "formatting is automatic" (asterisk), so its popularity probably extends beyond math-heavy disciplines.
> Right now latex would be a high indicator of manual effort, right?
...no?
Just one Google search for "latex editor" showed more than 2 in the first page.
It's not that different from using a markdown editor.
This is just because LaTeX is widely used by researchers.
Also yes, LaTeX being source code it's much easier to get an AI to genere LaTeX than integrate into MS Word.