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  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Corey S. Powell:

    Imagine the staggering labor involved in sending around an email that says, “Nobody did anything dumb like using AI to generate the citations, right?” I mean, that could take seconds.

    • zogwarg@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Also what is even the meaning of adding citations if you never came across the source?

      [I vaguely understand that there is a lot of window-dressing that comes with writing papers, but this is too perverse.]