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by cratermoon 657 days ago
The problem is not that a paper has fabricated content generated by ChatGPT, the problem is that there are many papers and they are polluting scholarship to the point that the base of evidence used in policy-making could be poisoned to the point of uselessness.
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Firstly, "fabricated content" is a meaningless phrase. For the sake of argument, I use Github Copilot for "fabricating" every line of code. Does this make my code polluted? No, because I review every line of code, editing what's necessary, and more. It's the same way with scholarship. It doesn't say anything in itself.

Perhaps "unreviewed scholarship" would be a more concerning claim, but I don't yet see the evidence for it being a major concern.