[rich_sasha]

IMO academic papers are too long. The decorum dictates that a core of real, novel content must be surrounded in tons of fluff. Most people don't ever read that fluff (some do, and it's not totally useless, but not to most people).

It doesn't actually bother me if some of that fluff is ChatGPT-generated, provided the author actually read it and accepts the autogenerated content.

But better still, cut the fluff.

[anal_reactor]

I'm having flashbacks from writing my Master's thesis. The experimental part was done in two weeks, then I spent a week describing the results, then a few months going from 15 pages to 80 pages and at least 30 citations, with the latter being surprisingly difficult because of uniqueness of my research topic.