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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2026 23:45:34 JST Rich Felker

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   @sennoma It was always snake oil. LLMs cannot read anything. They cannot summarize. What they can do is generate sequences of words that look like a plausible summary to the person who will read them.

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     lower-value human capital (sennoma@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2026 23:45:36 JST lower-value human capital

     Open Access friends, I have a question for you!

     In light of the horrors found inside Claude, is there ANY software that you would trust to draft a literature review for you?

     Access to the literature for LLMs (or "data mining") was once, and I'm guilty of this, widely touted as one of the as-yet-unrealized benefits of OA.

     "No one can read 129,852* p53 papers," I used to say, "but a machine can."

     Is this still a possibility, or is it all just snake oil?

     *current PubMed number