It's not so much the undeclared use of ChatGPT that bothers me but the egregious sloppiness of it. It was already obvious that writing scientific papers has evo

It's not so much the undeclared use of ChatGPT that bothers me but the egregious sloppiness of it. It was already obvious that writing scientific papers has evolved into a cargo cult, but this shows that it's much worse than previously thought. Authors, referees, and journals go through the motions of what lead to genuine scientific advancement in the past, but no actual value is being created at any step in the process for that vast majority of papers. Of course most papers will never be ground breaking but at least in the past there was some value being created in the process.