Rejecting the 'LLM Research Game': The Joy of Science Lies in Your Own Curiosity
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-30
An AI researcher openly refuses to engage with the 'LLM research game', arguing that the joy of science is to pursue one's own curiosity rather than answer questions an instruction-tuned LLM finds interesting. He adds that if one wants to play 'games', they might as well go to corporations and get paid more for it.
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