pettter
@CatherineFlick @tante I think an important consideration here is that academia has changed and will continue to change. I'm not saying "LLM use is going to be ubiquitous so PhDs should learn how to use them", but rather that I fully understand that as metrics keep being shit and the pressure to publish increases I absolutely get that someone doing a PhD now would be tempted, as @tante wrote above.
Writing pitches _is_ a part of academic work, but should it? To the current extent?
Prof. Catherine Flick
@tante They should still be learning how to pitch their work for conferences rather than relying on LLMs to do it for them. The PhD is a training exercise for academia (warts and all), writing these sorts of things is part of that training.
tante
@CatherineFlick TBH: For PhD Students I do at least see the pragmatic value. They need a bunch of publications which is a lot of work so generate the abstracts and try to hit any conference to fulfill your requirements.
(But I have a very cynical view on the way science is structured organizationally so maybe that's a tad unfair)
Prof. Catherine Flick
@tante I've heard of PhD students submitting LLM-written abstracts for conferences and I'm like really??? How does this benefit you??
tante
The way that LLMs shield you from learning is a form of intellectual self-harm TBH.
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