VanDLR (ella/she/her)⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yesterday I came across a paper, “Minimum Viable Scale: Extinction and Escape under Increasing Returns,” by Javier Milei (@JMilei) and Demian Reidel (@dreidel1): drive.google.com/file/d/1u8iZzd… I downloaded it because it sits close to something I am working on (and I am actually sympathetic toward the point the authors are trying to make). As I read, I had the clear sense that a large language model had produced the text: the formatting, the style, the kind of assumptions, the way the derivations were laid out, the papers cited. So I took the abstract and four paragraphs at random and ran them through Pangram. In all five cases, it returned a 100% probability of AI generation. Now, I don’t mind economists using LLMs in their research. I do it all the time, for many purposes. Nor do I mind economists whose first language is not English using them to polish their prose. I do that too, and I have been open about it (this very same post has been tested for grammatical accuracy). But there is a line between “I use LLMs to help with my research” and “I asked an LLM to write a paper and put my name on it.” I may be wrong, of course, and I will gladly correct this assessment.

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