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by riedel 653 days ago
True. I am seeing chatgpt used by my colleagues (mostly no English native speakers) day to day and it mostly improves their writing (except for those wotfd that pop up a bit too often [0] like utilize [1]). So not all bad.

I am also hearing that a lot of reviewers and readers use it though. So we are often joking that PhD students (in CS) nowadays only write bullet point from their research. Generate prose that is used to generate bullet points.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatbots-have-tho...

[1] https://medium.com/learning-data/words-and-phrases-that-make...

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Scientific writing is pretty bad usually so I'll count this as an improvement