• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    alot of phds are just making paper after paper which could be considered low quality, just to have thier CV presentable. if you paper has nothing valuable or its an exact clone of another paper, its not really innovative, ive read some papers are just to similar to another, or its just speculation type of study/research.

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      16 hours ago

      I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.

      Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.

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      Yes—academic publishing has become a quantity engine—endlessly churning out papers that echo one another—more about survival than discovery. Many PhDs write for the CV, not the cosmos—speculating, recycling, or rephrasing ideas to stay afloat in the “publish or perish” tide—where innovation drowns quietly beneath the noise. /gpt

      Imagine how much worse it’s going to get as more and more is ai slop like the above.