Originality in the age of machine-generated text, part 2: Brainrot, peer-review, and the importance of voluntary reading

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Sustainability Matters

De Gruyter Brill

113 episodes

2 weeks ago

This month on Sustainability Matters, we discuss whether external research promotion has any tangible effects. Can external media attention translate into academic citations? Does choosing the “right” journal matter? And do we risk perverse outcomes from over-incentivising citations? All this and more with Dr. Steffen Lemke and Dr. Isabella Peters, authors of “Path model of the interplay between the promotion and the received attention of research articles” along with Dr. Athanasios Ma...

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Originality in the age of machine-generated text, part 2: Brainrot, peer-review, and the importance of voluntary reading

Sustainability Matters

58 minutes

3 months ago

Originality in the age of machine-generated text, part 2: Brainrot, peer-review, and the importance of voluntary reading

In this second half of our special double episode of Sustainability Matters, we take a look at the impact of generative AI on academic culture. Should AI tools be used for peer review, grant writing, performance assessments, and the like? What makes “imperfect” human writing still worth defending? And finally, what happens to the value of voluntary reading in a world saturated with autogenerated content? All this and more with Dr. Naomi S. Baron, author of the chapter, “AI and Human Writing: ...