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In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Adding extra polish like nonsense phrases. Nobody is supervising it then.

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Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sure, and I’m sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who’s more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.

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- Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google translate is an LLM.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation
  
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  - wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Check the results though. Google translate is far far better at translation than a generic LLM.
    
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- Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It might be hard for them to find someone who is both fluent in english AND knows the field well enough to know vegetative electron microscopy is not a thing. Most universities have one general translation help service and science has a lot of field-specific weird terms.
  
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  - moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s why he said start with Google Translate. Because Google Translate isn’t giving gibberish like vegetative electron microscopy.
    
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