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direwolf20 wrote: post #263
raincole wrote: post #256

I know many people have negative opinions about this. I'd also like to share what I saw. Since GPT-4o became a thing, everyone who submits academic papers I know in my non-english speaking country (N > 5) has been writing papers in our native language and translating them with GPT-4o exclusively . It has been the norm for quite a while. If hallucination is such a serious problem it has been so for one and half a year…

Translation is something Large Language Models are inherently pretty good at, without controversy, even though the output still should be independently verified. It's a language task and they are language models.

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Post by disconcision »

biophysboy wrote: post #289
direwolf20 wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation is something Large Language Models are inherently pretty good at, without controversy, even though the output still should be independently verified. It's a language task and they are language models.

Are they good at translating scientific jargon specific to a niche within a field? I have no doubt LLMs are excellent at translating well-trodden patterns; I'm a bit suspicious otherwise..

for better or for worse, most specific scientific jargon is already going to be in english

Re: Prism

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Post by mbreese »

biophysboy wrote: post #289
direwolf20 wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation is something Large Language Models are inherently pretty good at, without controversy, even though the output still should be independently verified. It's a language task and they are language models.

Are they good at translating scientific jargon specific to a niche within a field? I have no doubt LLMs are excellent at translating well-trodden patterns; I'm a bit suspicious otherwise..

It seems to me that jargon would tend to be defined in one language and minimally adapted in other languages. So I’d not sure that would be much of a concern.

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Post by Springtime »

syntex wrote: post #191

The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up Mini paper: that future isn’t the AI replacing humans. its about humans drowning in cheap artifacts. New unit of measurement proposed: verification debt. Also introduces: Recursive Garbage → model collapse a little joke on Prism)

> The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

This appears to just be the output of LLMs itself? It credits GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 exclusively as authors, has a public domain license (appropriate for AI output) and is only several paragraphs in length.

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Post by falcor84 »

drusepth wrote: post #253
falcor84 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're assuming a world where humans are still needed to read the papers. I'm more worried about a future world where AIs do all of the work of progressing science and humans just become bystanders.

Why are you worried about that world? Is it because you expect science to progress too fast, or too slow?

Too fast. It's already coding too fast for us to follow, and from what I hear, it's doing incredible work in drug discovery. I don't see any barrier to it getting faster and faster, and with proper testing and tooling, getting more and more reliable, until the role that humans play in scientific advancement becomes at best akin to that of managers of sports teams.

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Post by webdoodle »

hulitu wrote: post #19

> Introducing Prism Accelerating science writing and collaboration with AI. I thought this was introduced by the NSA some time ago.

Lol, yep. Now with enhanced A.I. terrorist tracking...

Fuck A.I. and the collaborators creating it. They've sold out the human race.

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Post by y1n0 »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #150
vitalnodo wrote: post #2

Previously, this existed as crixet.com [0]. At some point it used WASM for client-side compilation, and later transitioned to server-side rendering [1][2]. It now appears that there will be no option to disable AI [3]. I hope the core features remain available and won’t be artificially restricted. Compared to Overleaf, there were fewer service limitations: it was possible to compile more complex documents, share proj…

It seems bad for OpenAI to make this about latex documents, which will be now associated, visually, with AI slop. The opposite of what anyone wants really. Nobody wants you to know they used a chatbot!

Please refrain from incorporating em dashes into your LaTeX document. In summary, the absence of em dashes in LaTeX.

Re: Prism

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Post by gverrilla »

gerdesj wrote: post #280
homerowilson wrote: post #275

Adding % !TEX program = lualatex to the top of your document allows you to switch LaTeX engine. This is required for recent accessibility standards compliance (support for tagging and \DocumentMetadata). Compilation takes a bit longer though, but works fine, unlike with Overleaf where using the lualatex engine does not work in the free version.

How on earth is that pronounced?

How on lua is that pronounced?
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