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by giraj 1157 days ago
As a researcher, this sounded interesting so I had a look. The first paper that caught my eye (https://paperlist.io/post/247381561) has a bunch of "generic" (lacking substance; could be generated) comments that I find a bit uncanny. Three of them have the same style of being all lower-case (even the name of R, the programming language being discussed). Doesn't make me want to engage.

... and now I also noticed that the paper summaries are AI-generated! That's an anti-feature for me, at present.

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Yeah, after reading a few dozen comments on some papers I completely agree... the lack of substance is so clear and consistent it's highly suspicious.

The concept is interesting enough, but uh. If they're filling it with bot comments to make it look less empty to passers-by, they're optimizing for catching people not paying attention, while apparently targeting people interested in deep attention (who will immediately turn away from this).