Academic Reflects on LLM Damage to Institutions—and Hopes for Better Evaluation
benno_krojer · x · 2026-09-19
The author expects LLMs to hurt academia, hopefully confined to institutions—review processes, hiring criteria—rather than our general love of reading, which was already declining. He hopes the shake-up might force better systems: academics may yearn more for genuine writing, and evaluation could shift back to the papers themselves instead of aggregate metrics.
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