What is wrong with AI writing - ICLR edition [D]
The reason I think it's tricky is that "clearly AI writing" is not the right way to critique - AI "editing" of writing is allowed.
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Key points
- I'm sure many of us are slogging through impenetrable AI writing as we finish ICLR reviewing.
- I'll try to create an anonymized version from a paper I'm reviewing, though it's hard to match Claude on this:
- My question for the community is this: how do we call out this type of bad writing?
- I'd love to see anonymized examples and how people critique the substance of the problems with different types of AI writing over-use.
Sources (1)
- [1]What is wrong with AI writing - ICLR edition [D]r/MachineLearning (top, daily) · Oct 17, 11:40 PM
The reason I think it's tricky is that "clearly AI writing" is not the right way to critique - AI "editing" of writing is allowed.
I'm sure many of us are slogging through impenetrable AI writing as we finish ICLR reviewing.
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