Oxford's Yarin Gal: write papers yourself, LLMs should only review
yaringal · x · 2026-09-22
Yarin Gal (Oxford) is seeing increasingly homogenised, vacuous language in ML papers. He argues scientific writing exists to communicate the ideas authors developed, and proposes a policy: write text yourself, using LLMs only for review-style feedback (e.g. "flag anything ambiguous") — while banning uses like "write an intro from this abstract" or drafting background sections. When the tool becomes a hindrance, rethink how to use it.
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