About whether AI can write research papers that hold up to expert scrutiny.
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About whether AI can write research papers that hold up to expert scrutiny.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I tried writing a simple 20 page paper with the latest Claude model over several weeks and that thing got ripped apart by legal and data science (for good reason), not going to try that again. And there I had all the numbers and analyses down and verified, just the writing itself by Claude was subpar.
Can’t imagine the utter garbage that Claude will produce when you give it a simple prompt and let it write thousand of pages.
Kind of makes me wonder about all that AGI talk if these models can’t even the work of a good PhD or postdoctoral student.