Daniel Lemire: A Colleague Praised a Literature Review, Then Objected to ChatGPT — 'The Very Foundation of Modern Academia Has Been Blown to Bits'

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Computer science professor Daniel Lemire's July 30 post — 47 points, 61 comments on HN — describes a colleague lavishing praise on an extensive literature review, unaware it was produced quickly with AI assistance, while opposing ChatGPT on principle. It follows a post three days earlier arguing that peer review is a recent second-half-of-the-twentieth-century invention that the Scientific Revolution and the first half of the twentieth century managed without, made in response to mathematicians objecting to AI-assisted proofs circulating on blogs and X. Single-source and opinion, but the comment thread is a useful read on how quickly blind evaluation is breaking down.