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> Peer review, for instance, will become even more important in a gen-ai world. It must be beefed up accordingly, perhaps by paying reviewers for the time they
by quantified 2y ago
> Peer review, for instance, will become even more important in a gen-ai world. It must be beefed up accordingly, perhaps by paying reviewers for the time they sacrifice to scrutinise papers.
So the cost savings in writing will be offset by additional costs of reading. Playing good defense is harder than playing offense.
The only strong argument here is that you can't tell anyway. Like effective doping in sport.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoOnly seniors will read, and juniors will never have the ability to write and learn. It reminds me of what could happen with programming: a train wreck slowly happening.
- tivert 2y ago> So the cost savings in writing will be offset by additional costs of reading. Also the more enjoyable tasks will be replaced with more drudgery. "I wish I could automate writing code so I could spend more time doing code reviews," said no-one ever, but that's the glorious future the "AI" developers are selling.
- Braini 2y agoExactly. This is the "reverse centaur" metaphor by Doctorow (for example here https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-23-maximal-plausibility-reverse-centaurs-0a3e71fd9c2 https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-23...) which describes the exact problem with this.
- tivert 2y agoGood article. It looks like you missed a "b" at the end of your link: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-23-maximal-plausibility-reverse-centaurs-0a3e71fd9c2b https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-23....