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I've heard from people in contact with Springer that they want to add an AI-based review in addition to human reviewers (first) for every journal. It's from hea

I've heard from people in contact with Springer that they want to add an AI-based review in addition to human reviewers (first) for every journal. It's from hearsay, so feel free to correct me if you're working for Springer. In any case, I'm in the humanities where this technology can and probably will be used, and it's going to accelerate a race to the bottom that already started a while ago due to publication pressure, incorrect use of indicators for evaluation, and deficiencies of the review system itself. AI is particularly bad at evaluation papers in the humanities because it is trained to value unoriginal thought and the status quo more than originality and constructive work.

akasakahakada 4y ago
The problem with humanities as a field is that they made ChatGPT shifted to ignore scienctific method in order to protect pseudoscience. If you have ever asked ChatGPT to say anything against or criticize the humanties studies, it just can't. Not even DAN can get rid of the humanities-protectionalism. You guy especially those AI ethics dudes just totally corrupted it.
- jonathanstrange 4y ago
  I don't think the AI ethics dudes corrupted the field specifically, they tend to be on the more reasonable side. But I generally agree. I've worked in philosophy for 30 years, half of those post-PhD, and the field is getting worse and worse. I've seen people rise to the top who are, frankly speaking, fairly dumb and often not even well-read, but have published a lot of books (there is almost no peer reviewing on books) and articles in bad journals. There are also certain topics you simply cannot work on unless you're fulfilling certain dogmatic expectations. However, I must add, in all fairness, that philosophy has some of the highest standards in the humanities and related disciplines are much worse. It's true that once you have established a line of study you just can't get rid of it any more. For example, someone started Argumentation Studies at our university, which is definitely a pseudo-science, and it's going to stay there forever, bound to spoil generations of students and agitate them against STEM fields. To get back to the original topic, however, I can't see any possible future in which AI reviewing wouldn't make the situation worse in the humanities than it already is.

akasakahakada 4y ago

The problem with humanities as a field is that they made ChatGPT shifted to ignore scienctific method in order to protect pseudoscience. If you have ever asked ChatGPT to say anything against or criticize the humanties studies, it just can't. Not even DAN can get rid of the humanities-protectionalism. You guy especially those AI ethics dudes just totally corrupted it.

jonathanstrange 4y ago
I don't think the AI ethics dudes corrupted the field specifically, they tend to be on the more reasonable side. But I generally agree. I've worked in philosophy for 30 years, half of those post-PhD, and the field is getting worse and worse. I've seen people rise to the top who are, frankly speaking, fairly dumb and often not even well-read, but have published a lot of books (there is almost no peer reviewing on books) and articles in bad journals. There are also certain topics you simply cannot work on unless you're fulfilling certain dogmatic expectations. However, I must add, in all fairness, that philosophy has some of the highest standards in the humanities and related disciplines are much worse. It's true that once you have established a line of study you just can't get rid of it any more. For example, someone started Argumentation Studies at our university, which is definitely a pseudo-science, and it's going to stay there forever, bound to spoil generations of students and agitate them against STEM fields. To get back to the original topic, however, I can't see any possible future in which AI reviewing wouldn't make the situation worse in the humanities than it already is.