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@JimDMiller @BobKerns @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv You keep arguing a thing I'm not saying. Also, LLM hallucinations weren't the issue four years ago that they are today. So, in four years time from now, if someone looked back at a paper published now that had fake references... Yes, they should have a penalty.

Are all authors on a paper expected to personally verify the accuracy of all citations? Imagine there was a medical researcher and someone found that four years ago one of the citations in a paper he co-authored wasn't real. There was no attempt at fraud or pushing a certain agenda. It was just a mistake. Would this researcher be banned?

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

@JimDMiller @BobKerns @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv Not sure how it works in economics, but in medical publishing where I work, we have authorship guidelines. One of those criteria is to review and approve the final manuscript. I think valid citations fall under that.

@BobKerns @bublitzkrieg @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv It's certainly possible to check every citation, but if you have Co-authors, I don't think it's a good use of time for everyone to check every citation.

@mirjacobs86 @JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv To be fair to Jim, he didn't say he fell into that category, just that he didn't want productive scholars to be hampered by checking their sources. I would question why a hypothetical productive scholar wouldn't read their sources.

@JimDMiller @bublitzkrieg @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv “Im an economist co-authoring papers that I don’t understand and didn’t verify my sources. I don’t have time to be good at what I’m working on.”

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@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv Making sure you're not citing fake references is possibly the lowest bar imaginable.

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv Honestly, the disconnect is probably the belief that publishing equals productivity. In a certain realm, people believe it does. But in reality, it's a game.

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv Totally correct, which is why researchers are responsible for it themselves

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv And it's crazy to imagine that someone is so productive that they can't check their own citations. They can do it sitting on the John. Or, can sign off twitter and do it

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv I also, work in medical publishing, so I do deal with this.

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv No, but one of the authors needs to be responsible for it. And if you can't trust your coauthors to vet citations, you shouldn't work with them. Or, you just be an adult and do it yourself. Do you check your citations? If so, what's your issue with it?

@JimDMiller @CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv @JimDMiller , basic research ethics is that you cite things you've read. If it's in a different language, get it translated.

@CCguerilla @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv We've left the AI slop era. AI makes mistakes, and makes different kinds of mistakes than humans do, But there are some tasks that they're much better than humans at, and we be foolish not to take advantage of this.

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“I tell the rogues to read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the internet or watch too much television lose it... Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society.” — Werner Herzog

3.5 years into the “AI revolution” Basically no sign that it has mattered for productivity.