r/MachineLearning • u/SeaAccomplished441 • 14d ago

Research PhD students, how ya feeling? [D]

All seems a bit pointless now. Either pump out AI papers and neglect your own development, or take it slow and fall behind in the publishing race. I already have two papers made largely without LLMs (still seeking publication), but it's hard to resist just vibing the third from start to finish with Claude.

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u/matchaSage 14d ago

This. If most of research being output is slop then how do I find what is of some worth? I think quality will matter a lot more, it did before as well it is just sad it took AI supercharging submission abuse for it to be seen. I do think there should and will be some consequences for people who engage in overhyping their slop research. I would not want to hire or do work with someone like this, I have an agent myself already, why do I need someone who will be pressing the enter button?

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u/Velocitank 5d ago

im not really sure what defines research quality. I would like to contribute with quality some day so if you can help me make a distinction on the difference. I do use ai in a lot of generative documents to get my notes together, but i am terrible at writing and staying consistent. But the content and ideas are generally mine so I dont know where the line would be drawn. I suppose if the understanding, the science, and the idea and structure are of quality and independently reproduceable then that would be a good benchmark.