Thanks for this. I think the paragraph editing will help me. Also, I second the claim that GPT is great for grant writing. I recently used it for first drafts. I saved hours.
Why? We don't acknowledge spell check or grammar check, or give credit to Google Docs, Scrivener, or Microsoft Word when we compose our essays or books in them, and we don't say, "Google helped me find relevant research that informed this paper." What makes GPT-4 distinct enough from those to merit an acknowledgement?
(I'm serious about this question, because a lot of the conversation about LLMs, and particularly a lot of the moral arguments against using them, or the idea that they are stealing ideas or work from writers, etc., is grounded in a belief that there's *something* different about them from other digital tools or automation, but the arguments for why they're different or what it is that makes them different haven't been terribly persuasive.)
Thanks for this. I think the paragraph editing will help me. Also, I second the claim that GPT is great for grant writing. I recently used it for first drafts. I saved hours.
Yes, HOURS. It's remarkable.
I'm starting to see the utility of ChatGPT for editing papers. Do you plan to acknowledge use of it in a footnote?
Yes, I will, or in the acknowledgments.
Why? We don't acknowledge spell check or grammar check, or give credit to Google Docs, Scrivener, or Microsoft Word when we compose our essays or books in them, and we don't say, "Google helped me find relevant research that informed this paper." What makes GPT-4 distinct enough from those to merit an acknowledgement?
(I'm serious about this question, because a lot of the conversation about LLMs, and particularly a lot of the moral arguments against using them, or the idea that they are stealing ideas or work from writers, etc., is grounded in a belief that there's *something* different about them from other digital tools or automation, but the arguments for why they're different or what it is that makes them different haven't been terribly persuasive.)
You might be right in principle. It still feels fake, though.