Scholars Worry AI-Written Papers May Kill Readership, Force Academia to Judge Work Itself
benno_krojer · x · 2026-09-19
- Sociologist @igsociologist argues that as AI-written papers proliferate, he takes pride in carefully crafting his own words and urges junior researchers to do the same; he's writing an ICLR intro from scratch with no AI.
- His interlocutor worries the spillover from mass AI nonsense will cost academia most of its readers, noting reading was already declining before LLMs.
- Silver lining: academics may yearn for genuine writing, forcing hiring and awards to evaluate papers themselves rather than aggregate metrics.
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