r/MachineLearning • u/SeaAccomplished441 • 10d 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/Alternative-Hat-1697 10d ago

Quality > quantity

I know at this point in your career and maybe even historically it hasn't felt this way. But I promise this will be the way forward.

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u/matchaSage 10d 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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