Dietterich pushes back on LeCun's claim that LLM-written papers won't stand the test of time
tdietterich · x · 2026-09-23
Yale professor Yann LeCun speculated that most papers written with LLMs will not stand the test of time, partly because people will develop a bias against that writing style.
Prominent ML researcher Thomas Dietterich pushed back: is the concern only about writing? What about theorems proved by LLMs, or algorithm experiments conducted by LLMs? If the substantive research output is sound, dismissing entire papers on stylistic grounds doesn't hold — a representative debate on LLMs' role in science.
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