He wasn't sanctioned for using an LLM to speed up his work, so seeing this as the first reply could confuse some people.
I've been doing this for months now too. I can get docs done in a day that used to take a couple weeks because of constant interruptions.
Do you think Tesla or Einstein with a LLM model, would spit out 5 new discoveries per week instead of one every decade?
Complaining about this is like complaining about the fact that people use IDEs to manage the imports in their Java class files. Ideally, you'd stop using a crap language that makes you wrap three lines of actual implementation in 50 lines of imports, declarations, and redundant-to-the-code comments to make doxygen (and a linter) happy, but if the institutional model prevents that... By all means use a good IDE to do half the work for you.
If his was just (ab)using chatgpt to create the papers from thin air then it'd be pretty easy for somebody to show where the pre-chatgpt papers are and the post-chatgpt papers are by the drop in quality. However, nobody has been citing the content of his papers when they make the claims about quality so I doubt chatgpt has an impact on the quality of his papers.
Who said the research was of flimsy quality?
Who said that the discoveries (as opposed to the BS padding journals require) was what LLM was used for?
They might or might not be. But not because he used an LLM to "polish them".
Something like physics, you can have a gap of months or years between a new theoretical breakthrough or the completion of a new machine giving you new raw data to churn through.
... but chemistry is something (no offense to chemists) you can do to the dirt outside your house, and every novel molecular arrangement can be paper-worthy.
> The university has sanctioned Luque for working as a researcher at other centers, such as the King Saud University in Riyadh and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, despite holding a full-time publicly funded contract with the Spanish institution.
What's the problem here? That a non-native speaker now doesn't need as much time to write text in a foreign language?
Maybe if he would be a English, Oxford educated scholar, would not need ChatGPT. Could then maybe do a paper every 4 to 8 hours?
Is there a lot of overlap in the contribution that each of his individual papers make? Or are a lot of these replication studies, carried out by different teams in parallel, with him being a co-author on each of them? I'd be curious to read an academic chemist about how this is possible.
Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.
I'm reminded of a story doing the rounds about 25 years ago regarding an engineering document which had been translated by a machine. The team saw a reference to a 'water sheep' which they worked out meant 'hydraulic ram'.
I'm going to use GPT from now on, zero doubt.
Perfect application for this AI tool imo.
Yup - credential whoring and research fraud. It's the new frontier.
Using a machine to work more efficiently is not bad.