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Asking authors about their own papers

234 points · 119 comments · stefanpie

  1. mlmonkey · · focus · HN ↗
    IMHO (not a paper writer, but read a lot during my grad school years), the Genie is out of the bottle. The only way forward, as I see it, is using LLMs for reviews also. Basically, filter all submitted papers with an LLM and ask it to summarize it, find the biggest weaknesses and main strong points, etc. that a human can then use to review the paper. Basically, LLM-as-a-reviewer .

    Personally, I would love to see a conference where people are explicitly encouraged to use LLMs for doing the work and writing the papers, and LLMs are used to review them too.

    1. CJefferson · · focus · HN ↗
      Nope, I’ve tried this, it’s awful.

      For a start LLMs love LLM generated text, so you are boosting papers people never had any input in.

      Secondly, LLMs in my experience are good at small issues, but fail totally at the whole paper being obviously poorly constructed, or clearly fake.

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