> And most worrying of all, writing can be an integral part of the research process, by helping researchers clarify and formulate their own ideas. An excessive

> And most worrying of all, writing can be an integral part of the research process, by helping researchers clarify and formulate their own ideas. An excessive reliance on llms could therefore make science poorer. This. The mistake so many people seem to make is to think of writing merely as outputting text, when it's a lot more. I predict LLMs will cause general competence levels to decrease, and an increase in the intellectual equivalent of three-fingered hands as more and more people lose the ability to notice the problem.